Newly crowned MotoGP champion Marc Marquez will miss the next two rounds of the season in Australia and Malaysia after suffering a fracture and ligament injury to his right shoulder in a crash at the Indonesian Grand Prix, Ducati said.

Aprilia rider Marco Bezzecchi collided with the rear of Marquez’s Ducati on Sunday and the pair both hurtled into the gravel at high speed, with Marquez appearing to be in significant discomfort after tumbling head over heels.

Marquez, who won his seventh MotoGP championship at the Japanese Grand Prix on September 28, was hunched over on the side of the track for a couple of minutes before staggering to his feet and lurching away while clutching his shoulder.

The injury was on the shoulder of the arm Marquez had fractured in the 2020 July season-opening S

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