MOTORCYCLE WORLD WORLD | Martín wins again with an insulting authority in Thailand

The young man from Madrid, 25 years old, eternal pursuer of the champion ‘Pecco’ Bagania, wins his fifth consecutive sprint race and cuts points from the Ducati leader, placing himself 18 points behind the MotoGP leadership

Awesome. No other word can be used. Or yes: powerful, decisive, implacable, serious, champion. Or almost. The Madrid native Jorge Martín (Ducati) was once again superb in the sprint race of the Thai Grand Prix17th round of the World Cup MotoGPand he demonstrated again, not only in the race, but also in the record Q2, the test in which the ‘pole position’ of the grand prix is ​​decidedthat It is, without a doubt, the fastest and, yes, yes, why not say it even if he is not the leader of the World Championship, the best on the MotoGP grid.

Martín, on the Buriram route, has won, from start to finish, from traffic light to checkered flag, from minute one to minute 23 when he finished the race, in an overwhelming way, with undeniable power, achieving his fifth Saturday victory after San Marino, India, Japan, Indonesia and Thailand. This new victory and the poor classification of ‘Pecco’ Bagania (Ducati), who finished in seventh position behind Martín, means that ‘Martinator’ has cut 9 points this Saturday with respect to the leader of MotoGP, which is now only 18 points behind the great favorite to renew the title.

The most powerful

Martín, who started on Saturday by getting two consecutive fastest lap records on the Thai track, first setting a time of 1.29.491 minutes for the ‘pole’ and then, after Marco Bezzecchi’s (Ducati) response, he left it at 1.29.287, he did not allow anyone to cough at him throughout the 13 laps that the race had. try the ‘sprint’. ‘Martinator’ always marked a record time throughout the first lapsonce again gained 1.9 seconds ahead of his only pursuer, who this time was the South African Brad Binder (KTM), who acknowledged that “as almost always, Jorge took off and was impossible to reach“.

Martín, who once again achieved absolute success this Saturday in Buriram, as he already achieved in Motegi (Japan), that is, leaving from pole, lead all laps from the test to the ‘sprint’ and achieve, of course, the fastest lap in race, acknowledged, at the end of the mini-race, that “I have been more cautious than ever, not only have I saved tires for the end but, even, in the last laps, I have saved myself physical for tomorrow’s long race.” ‘Martinator’ also confessed that everything went as they had planned: good start, first run, getting a 1.9 second advantage and keeping it until the end. The dream of the title is achievable, since there are still 136 points at stake and the difference with Bagnaia is 18.

A great Marquez

And the world champion failed again on Saturday, not only in the race, finishing seventh behind Martín, Binder, Luca Marini (Ducati), Marc Márquez (Honda), which, given its circumstances, had a great careerAleix Espargaró (Aprilia) and Marc Bezzecchi (Ducati), but also in the ‘quali’ when he could only finish sixth and that made him start from the second row and, therefore, prevent him from keeping up with Martín.

The last laps, with Martín already very secure in the lead, the most beautiful, disputed and spectacular thing was the fight, beautiful and clean, with two or three impressive overtakes, especially the last Márquez on Aleix in a beautiful interior in a right-hand curve , was the fight between the two Honda and Aprilia veterans, in which the eight-time world champion was able to win fourth place! that for someone who has won so much and has been on the podium so many times, now it tastes like glorythat’s why he received all his mistakes, in his workshop, with a standing ovation.