Maximo Quiles says he knows Marc Marquez has cost himself several titles by rushing back from injury.

The Spaniard is one of the best riders of his generation and currently races for Ducati, joining them from Honda in 2024 until now in 2026. Marquez got 57 pointsBut he has yet to win the race or walk on the podium.

Although already a seven-time champion, Marquez He has been told he could have had more titles if he hadn’t come back from injury.

In the year In 2020, Márquez crashed during the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez, requiring surgery to implant a plate in his hand. A few days later, Márquez returned to the bike in free practice at the Andalusian Grand Prix.

However, the Spaniard admitted he suffered too much and ultimately sat out the rest of the 2020 campaign. Since then, he has undergone additional surgeries to completely correct the problem.

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Maximo Quills says Marc Marquez has bounced back from injury to claim several titles.

He recently told a Spanish news outlet. SportsQuiles Marquez was asked what he learned when he won the 2025 title.

In response, the 18-year-old said the biggest lesson was not to rush back from injury, saying Marquez would have won more titles if he had taken time to fully recover.

Quills said: “One of the messages is not to do the damage too quickly. If we hadn’t been so quick, he would have won more titles, I’m sure, he knows that too.”

“The other thing is the message of overcoming adversity. It’s amazing to come back from such a bad time and overcome in that way, that way, so easily…

You could tell he was from another world, and there are few like him. That makes me a little angry, because it makes it difficult for young people like us. But to be able to do what he does and to have him out there, to have him look up to me as a role model is a dream come true.

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Earlier, Marquez himself admitted that the decision to return to action just days after surgery was a ‘mistake’.

As reported Motor sportMarquez told DAZN: “It was a mistake to try to go back to Jerez, I learned that riders have virtues and flaws, that riders don’t see fear, so they (doctors) make us see it.”

“After the first operation, the first question of every rider is: When can I get back on the bike? And it is the doctor who needs to know how to stop you, he is the one who knows the truth.

“I’m brave, but I wouldn’t have ridden a motorcycle at 300km/h if you’d told me that the plate would break when I knew myself.”