Jorge Martín had an absolutely disastrous race at Lusail today and at the end of the race, in his first analysis, he left little doubt that something strange had happened to his bike, but he didn’t hide a sense of frustration when he admitted that he felt his championship had been stolen.
Asked what happened in the race today, the spaniard admitted he didn’t know what had happened: ‘Well, I don’t know, it’s difficult to say, I seem to have forgotten how to ride. I think you could see right from the start when my rear tyre started spinning, it was like a stone, and that normally happens when the track is dirty but it wasn’t, it was the grid, and when the tyre has maybe 30 laps on it, and it didn’t because it was new’.
Afterwards, the Pramac rider was quite cryptic about what had happened to his bike, and didn’t hide the feeling that it had been ‘stolen’. Whether he’s thinking of sabotage in some sort, it is unclear:
– You can guess what happened for yourselves and from that point on I tried to manage it but I felt like I was crashing at every corner because of the rear. It’s a shame that a championship like this, after a great season, working hard, feels like it’s been stolen away from me because I think I could have got there before this race and now it’s very difficult. It’s hard to know what will happen on Sunday.