Jorge Martin is being one of the sensations at the beginning of the MotoGP championship. the pilot of Saint Sebastian of the kings won the ‘sprint race’ and was second in Sunday’s race.
32 of the 37 points in the French Grand Prix He got them with trade and leaving a spectacular battle with Marc Márquez. Le Mans witnessed how the Spanish motorcycling is returning to the levels of years ago.
Although Marco Bezzecchi won on Sunday, all the spotlights were on Marc Márquez and Jorge Martin. Both had their ups and downs at the start of the season when the one from Cervera collided with the Pramac Racing in the Portuguese race.
“Be careful, because he has already ruined two careers for me and I have not ruined any for himJorge said. “There are drivers ahead, and you have to respect that. At that point you have to go away but he doesn’t respect it,” he highlighted in Portugal.
This incident led to a sanction for Márquez which in the end did not occur, but a discomfort on the grid was consolidated due to the risky driving of Marc.
A “clean” and “pretty” fight
Despite everything, he duel between Marc and Jorge Martín in the last laps It was so clean and exciting that the one in San Sebastián de los Reyes gave signs that it the past is already forgotten. This is how he explainednice battle with Márquez“:
“I think that we needed her and he knew that he would arrive sooner or later, on Saturday in the sprint he made a mistake at the start and was convinced that Sunday was going to turn out well“, he acknowledged.
“I was studying his lines on video in the morning, on the images from the helicopter, and trying to see at what points it could happen to him, because it is complicated”, something he demonstrated on the track.
Despite the risk, the pilot of Pramac enjoyed measuring himself against the seven-time champion: “Personally I think it was a beautiful, clean fight, we were both aggressive trying my best,” he added.
Jorge assumed that he would have been third if Marc had not crashed with two laps to go: “In the end he made a mistake, I would have liked very much to finish the racealthough I would have finished thirdI think he too he deserved to finish on the podiumwe have had a great race”, he stressed.
“I hope we can have more battles like this in the future,” he concluded. Hopefully we can continue enjoying the best Marc Márquez and a pilot headed for success in the premier class as George Martin.
