Reigning MotoGP World Champion Marc Marquez will this week decide whether he will be able to take part in the upcoming Phillip Island tests.

The Repsol Honda man is recovering from a broken ankle and will speak with his doctors and team to see if it will be possible for him to ride at the test which has been designed to evaluate new tyres in order to stop last year’s shortened race and enforced pitstop farce.

“Marc is doing his rehabilitation and tomorrow morning he will visit the doctor again, so then we’ll try to understand what to do for the next test,” said Repsol Honda team principal Livio Suppo.

“We have to ship the bike one way or another, so we still have three full days to understand. On the one hand it would be good for him to be on the bike again before the start of the season, but on the other hand I’m already totally confident in him because we saw at the first Sepang test that he was already immediately very fast.”

“He was already able to choose the new parts of the bike, so we’re not in the middle of any big changes. The priority is always the rider’s body and especially at the moment as we don’t have any drama on the technical side.”