The Pramac Ducati rider evaluated the year positively and acknowledged that “at the beginning of the year we aimed to be in the Top3 overall, not fighting for the title”
The world runner-up wanted to congratulate champion ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia and also apologized to Marc Márquez for the action that left them both out of the race
The Madrid native Jorge Martinsecond at the bottom in the general table of the MotoGP World Championship has indicated, despite everything, that he feels “happy to have fought for the world title until the last race“.
“The truth is that anyone would tell you that I feel sadness, absolute rage or pain, but I feel happiness because after the result, after a hard moment, I am grateful for the team I have and the people I have around me. “This is just the beginning, I think I have many years left to fight for the championship,” he said, convinced.
“It was not in our plan to fight for the title, our plans were to make Top3 and we have done it in spades, reaching the last day in Valencia, scoring more than a hundred points for third and with many possibilities of winning the World Cup. I am happy for what we have achieved“I have a wonderful team and I hope to be able to fight for many more world championships,” stressed Martín.
Jorge Martín explained what happened in your first mistake when trying to overtake Bagnaia. “The truth is that I had thought about passing it, then I decided not to pass it and as soon as I got behind him he sucked me in the slipstream of his motorcycle, I had to apply the brakes and I saw that I was going to eat it, which would have been a catastrophe. “I got up a little bit, we touched each other, and from then on I tried to recover positions.”
“The truth is that I was very fast, much faster than the rest. Then I met a very feisty Viñales, I haven’t understood very well, at all, why he gave me back every overtakewhen he was supposedly one, well not one of my allies because I didn’t have any, but he wasn’t going to bother me so to speak,” Martín recalled.
“Then he was overtaking Marc, he released the brakes to maintain the position and I couldn’t do anything other than lift the bike to try to save the fall.. I feel bad for him too, because these are racing things, but he came with a very good pace and it was a shame,” Márquez lamented. After his mistakes, Jorge Martín assured that “he was going for the race“I was sixth fighting for fifth and I had Zarco and I had the two KTMs left.”
“Yesterday I worked until very late. I knew that the World Cup was going to be practically impossible when I saw that ‘Pecco’ was already first from the beginning, but I wanted to say goodbye with a victory to close the year and That makes me more angry than the World Cupbecause it seemed difficult to me,” said Martín sincerely.
“I don’t think I lost the World Cup there, The problem has been the sum of errors throughout the yearespecially in the first half, in which we suffered and were not as competitive, and we have to see why at the beginning of the year I suffered to start like that,” he stated.
“I want to congratulate ‘Pecco’ because I think it has been a fantastic year. He was 60 points ahead of me at the beginning of the year and, although he has also made mistakes, he has managed to win it, so I think he’s a great champion. Repeating World Cups is very difficult and I think he has had that maturity and that speed necessary to achieve them,” said Jorge Martín of the 2023 world champion.