Australian MotoGP: Jorge Martin on Ducati snub - “They’ve just made the decision as if they were a person in the stands”

Jorge Martin has criticised Ducati’s decision to overlook him for next year’s factory seat by likening it to a supporter deciding.
Jorge Martin MotoGP race, Thailand MotoGP 2 October
Jorge Martin MotoGP race, Thailand MotoGP 2 October

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Enea Bastianini will partner 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia in the Lenovo Ducati Team in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2023 MotoGP rider line-up, winning a three-way battle with Martin and current incumbent 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Miller.

Martin opened up, via The Ducati Decision, on🐎 being initially told that he would get the nod.

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He said: “I’m most🎀 angry or most disgusted because it’s as if they haven’t been inside the box wh🐼ich is where everything really happens.

“They’ve just made the decision as if the♛y were a person in the stands.

“This is the only thing that bothers me a l♕ittle.”

Gresini Racing rider Bastianini has won three races this season and is fourth in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:MotoGP standings, five places above Pramac Racing’s Martin.

Jorge Martin Enea Bastianini , Qatar MotoGP, 5 March
Jorge Martin Enea Bastianini , Qatar MotoGP, 5 March

Ducati sporting director Paolo Ciabatti said: “The three grands prix won by Enea were a bit of the reason that the balance 𒁏went to his side.”

Ba𝓰stianini reacted: “For me it was not a big surprise because, after three victories, I thought𝓀 that I’d probably be the factory rider for next year.”

Martin said: “It is the only reason - his victories. I𒅌n terms of work and level, we are🍰 similar. Both of us deserved it.”

Bastianini: “I received a phone call from Gigi Dall’Igna. I missed the first call because I was riding my▨ motorbike!”

Martin: “I was told they’d choose me”

Ernest Riveras, DAZN commentator, said: “People from Spain thought that Marti✅n would be chosen.

“Martin thought: ‘I am a bet♏ter rider than Bastianini’.

“They had already talked to Marti📖n: ‘You are ready f🤪or us in 2023’.”

Jorge Martin Thailand MotoGP. 1 October
Jorge Martin Thailand MotoGP. 1 October

Martin revealed: “Inside Ducati some people were tryin🍸g to have Enea, some people were trying to have me.

“So the people that spoke to me tolཧd me that they would choose me!”

꧒Bastianini, speaking earlier this year, said: “I thought it would be Jorge because he is a fast rider.”

Bastianini did not finish the Aus🍰trian MotoGP in August, as Martin finished 10th, just weeks before the big decision was due.

Riveras said: “At the end of the Austrian MotoGP, Jo🌱rge said to me: ‘I have a good feeling’.”

Martin: “The people that spoke to me told me tha𒅌t they would choose me. That’s why I had a go🅷od feeling. But it was 50-50 - yes or no.”

Ciabatti explained the process: “After Austria we had an online meeting with Mr. Domenicaliꦚ, Mr. Dall’Igna and Davide Tardozzi to put our ideas together.

Jorge Martin Thailand MotoGP. 1 October
Jorge Martin Thailand MotoGP. 1 October

🥀“We haꦰd to evaluate two very young riders with great futures, who have different pros and cons.

“We were not all convinced which way to go. Some people though Jorge was the better option, some people though🌺t Enea.

“Maybe no🐟t everybody will be happy 100 percent. They will have the same conditions on the technical side and the salary side. It will be two factory riders in tꦏwo teams.”

Riveras said about Martin: “His ego is bruised so he’s dangero🐷us right now.”

Martin and Bastianini head into this weekend's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Australian MotoGP with their futures sorted - but with the talking point of Ducati﷽ tea😼m orders set to crop up.

Bagnaia is just two points adrift of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Quartararo with 🍸three races to go as they battle for the championship and could benefit from assistance from his fellow Ducati riders.

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