Jorge Martin: “I’d prefer to feel bad and get P4, than feel good and crash…”
“I started bad and tried to recover in the fir❀st corners. This was a disaster."
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin described the sprint i⭕n Barcelona as “a really bad ꧋day” despite maintaining a healthy lead in the championship.
Martin was restricted to fourth but, due to Pecco Bagnaia’s crash from the lead of the sprint on Saturday at the Catalunya MotoGP, his title lead was barely damaged.
It was reduced from 38 points from Bagnaia to 37 points to Marc Marqueཧz.
“Difficꩲult, really diffi꧅cult,” Martin bemoaned. “It was a really bad day. The feeling was really bad.
“I started bad and tried to recover in the first corners. This 💦was a disaster because I overheated the rear too🗹 much. It never recovered.
“Afte🌌r, I tried to make lap time with the front by entering fast and turning. 💖It didn’t work.
“Even on a bad day, I got fourth position. Maybe it wasn’t a real position 𝐆because there were crashes but maybe this is because they pushed to𓆏o much.”
Martin explained w﷽hy hi𝓰s start was so bad: “I couldn’t try this set-up and this clutch. It was straight into the race. It was unpredictable, then a bad start.
“Tomorrow I 🃏will try to ♐understand in the warm-up.”
Martin witnessed Raul Fernandez, Bra✅d Binder and Bagnaia all crash out from the lead༒.
Did it make him more car𒁃eful, with the podium narrowly eluding him?
“I’d prefer to feel bad and to get fourth positi𝕴on, t♉han feel good and crash,” he said.
“I saw the crash🧔es and my feeling was really bad, in that moment, so maybe I wasn’t the only one.
“I was losing the front in every corner.
“The pressure was okay. It was about temperature.
“Let’s try for a better start.𒐪 I was 11th in the first corner.”
Despite emerging with his title lea🅺d still strong,🔯 Martin was disappointed.
“💃My target is to be on the podium. Today we did not achieve my goal,” the Pramac Ducati rider said.
“We have potenti꧂al for the podium and the victory.
“I struggle behind rid💜ers. When I am stuck behind someone, I struggle a lot.
“I don’t struggle at this track. Just in the spr🦂int. I feel confident that, with the medium, I can do a better job.”
Aleix Espargaro won the s💛print ahead of Marquez and♏ Pedro Acosta.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything fr꧃om American sports, to football, to F1.
