After hovering around the title this season, Jorge Martín is already looking ahead to the 2024 season and does not shy away from the responsibility, after being the runner-up and having been Moto3 world champion in 2018.
‘In 2024, I see myself as a champion. But that requires many things to come together. It will be an interesting year, the level is high and continues to grow. But I will always push myself and try to be better than I was the day before,’ declared the 25-year-old rider in an interview on the program “O Formigueiro.”
Summarizing the current season, Martín says it was a learning experience. ‘It was a big step compared to the previous year. Before, I used to fall a lot and that cost me many operations, this year I was more consistent. But there is something that hurts me a lot, which was what happened in the race in Indonesia. I was leading by more than three seconds and if I had won, almost certainly with that result I would have won the MotoGP world championship. The fact of feeling so superior, of wanting to humiliate, so to speak, caused me to fail. It was a learning experience for the future. You can win by two tenths or by one second, the points are the same,’ he acknowledged.
‘In Qatar, I had a defective tire, I won on Saturday and thought I would repeat the feat on Sunday to get even closer to Pecco. But I ended up in tenth, suffering. I was losing positions, lap after lap, there, I had to cheer up my team. They were all very sad because of that result,’ he concluded.
