Jorge Martin He has it in his hand. Become a champion It’s worth being ninth in the long race this Sunday after third place in the sprint. But the Madrid driver does not know how to race to finish ninth and does not plan to do so, because he assured that if he did, “he would surely finish tenth”. However, the Spaniard acknowledged that Sunday’s race “is a procedure that must be completed.”
Martinateur He is only seven points away from the title: “I feel good, confident. I’ve been preparing for this moment my whole life, so tomorrow is a procedure that must be passed. I will try to enjoy the race. Today was a bit of a tense race. I started very well, I wanted to move into first position and I saw myself with the pace to advance, but I saw that it was going to be very difficult. We got into a fight in which we lost a lot of time, and although I could have moved forward, the decision of the front tire was not the right one. “Let’s hope to have a better strategy tomorrow.”
Martín analyzed his fight with Bastianini and revealed that he does not plan to land ninth: “No, I drove normally. I tried to pass Enea two or three times, but it was a good fight. I think the fact that he wanted to succeed allowed me to perform and be 100% focused, and that helped me. I thought I had control on the last lap, but he gave me another Mugello. The important thing is that I took the necessary points to have a little more peace of mind.
“But my goal is the same, to run the way I know how. There’s no point racing to get ninth place, because you’ll probably get tenth place.. I will try to do a race as always, with the podium or the top 5 as my objective. “I think it’s a good goal to stay focused, because that’s the key, concentration and making it a race like any other,” he added.
Jorge Martín wants to “run a normal race” this Sunday to win the title. “The goal is to have a normal career. Every time I run, I try to finish and that’s what I’m going to do tomorrow. Obviously, with leadership and risk control. I’m not going to fight unnecessarily, that’s very clear. But in the end, if I have more pace than the driver in front, there is no point waiting for those behind. “That’s kind of my mentality.”
Big release
The Spaniard made a superb start from fourth place to almost take the lead on the first lap: “I got off to a great start. I overtook Aleix, I overtook Marc and I overtook Pecco. What happens is I blocked a little from behind and I traveled a long way and Enea passed us all. He made an exit. I already knew they were going to give it back to me, it was very difficult to close this curve. But in the end, I took my chance and if I had gone first into the first corner, it could have been something else.”
Regarding Bastianini’s overtaking, Jorge Martín stated that “Enea did what she had to doit was to try to finish second and stay ahead of me. He also has his personal fight with Marc Yes, I was frustrated at the end of the race, but in the end he had a very good race. Tomorrow we will see what happens for the long race.
He also admitted that he did not expect Bagnaia to put the hard tire in front: “Pecco surprised me with the hard front without having tried it before. I thought it was a strategy for me to go hard, but in the end he did it. Gigi is someone who doesn’t like to take the plunge into something that hasn’t been tried, so this seemed very strange to me. Likewise, I tried it, because tomorrow the temperature will be higher and it is likely, because today we were already very close to the limit.
Finally, they asked him how he slept during such an important weekend, so he commented in the preview that he was going to sleep well despite the risk for the MotoGP title, and assured that “I think For an athlete these days, it is not easy to sleep. I slept my seven and a half hours. I think they’re enough, so I’m hoping to sleep the same today.
