The Repsol Honda rider withdrew from his home race last week, the Spanish MotoGP, and targeted a comeback next week at Le Mans but has issued an update which admi🃏ts ཧhis plan is in doubt.

"The doctors will decide,” he told S🍷panish TV. 

“On Tuesday (May 9) I hav💟e a CT scan and let's see if everything goes well and I can re-enlist in the championship. 

“Being in Le Mans is a bit up in the air💎, but hopefully I can sജhoot in France to get to the right place.”

If he does miss Le Mans, there is then a month-long break unti𝔍l the Italian MotoGP at Mugello on June 11.

Marquez suffered a hand injury when he crashed🅺 into Miguel Oliveira in the season-opening Portimao race which required surgery.

He hasn’t been in action since, missi🎃ng three ro🌱unds and now potentially a fourth in Le Mans.

He has been replaced by Stefan Bradl and Iker Lecuona so far, but Honda 𒊎have not confirmed their Plan B if 🍷he misses Le Mans.

Marquez also crucial🏅ly mꦓissed the Jerez test where Honda used a Kalex chassis.

There i𒅌s still no cla🐠rity about the double long lap penalty that Marquez was hit with for crashing into Oliveira.

The rule was reworded so that Marqu💜ez must serve the penalty whenever he returns, but Honda aꦜppealed this.

The MotoGP Court𒐪 of Appeal’s final decision has not🥃 yet come.

This ongoing injury absence is a nightmare for Marquez who entered 2023 vocal about being free of physical problems for the firs🦩t time in two years, having fully recovered from last summer’s career-threatening arm operation.

But a totally different problem was caused juꦉst three grand priꦆx laps into 2023.

He alr🎀eady sits 80 points behind championship leader Francesco Bagnaꦉia.

Last year Bagnaia overﷺhauled a 91-point deficit to win the title - that was an all-time record amount.

It me♏ans that, particularly if Marquez is absent from Le Mans next week, his faint hopes of winning a seventh premier class championship this year are all but over.