Jorge Martín leads the MotoGP World Championship with six rounds remaining, holding a 24-point advantage over Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati). The Prima Pramac rider has only won two races, but has been more consistent than his rival—particularly since the summer break, with the only exception being the San Marino GP, where he did not finish second.
In a press conference, the Spaniard spoke about his positive development throughout the season: ‘I’m a bit more mature on the bike in the last few races. It seems like at the beginning of the season I had some problem that I didn’t recognize and I was crashing – like Sachsenring or Jerez. And now I think we found the solution. For sure two weeks ago I did a wrong choice and I lost points, but I’m not crashing that much’.
Happy with his bike, Martín now hopes to at least maintain his championship lead: ‘I’m happy that I found a good base set-up, I know my bike really well, and I feel that I can control the limit. I hope that next time I can be super focused in Indonesia and in the next few races to keep this gap or even increase it’.
According to the #89, until the German GP, his Ducati Desmosedici GP24 had something different from the others, and changing that cost him some performance but helped him avoid incidents: ‘For sure it was some part of the bike that was different than the rest of the Ducatis until Sachsenring. I feel I was maybe a bit more competitive, but I was crashing a bit more. Now I lost a bit of performance with that different part, but at least I don’t have these crazy crashes. It’s not that it’s more stiff; it’s maybe this different part’.