Explained: How Jorge Martin should have avoided baffling Misano mistake
Jorge Martin decision attributed to "panic"
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin should have been led by information from his garage, and not made a decision based on gut-instinct to avoid his San Marino MotoGP disaster, he has been told.
The championship con𒁃tender was the first rider at Misano on Sunday to pit for his wet bike, as raindrops fell.
He rejoined a lap later by which time his error was obvi🐼ous, forcing him to box again and rejoin a lapped 15th.
Martin♏ catastrophically finished 15th (Marc Marquez won ahead of Pecco Bagnaia). Martin’s championship lead ahead of Bagnaia has been ꧋cut to seven points.
As he boldly pulled in, with rain only in its earliest stages, TNT Sports commentator Neil Hodgson yelled: “This is a mistake, it’s dry! “He had one little ✱scare, and panicked!”
Micha൲el Laverty later analysed how Martin came to his decision - and what he should have done instead.
“It’s always the rider who makes the call,” Laverty said. “Sometimesౠ you will ask for signals on your pitboard or your dash. But today there wasn’t time.
“The rain only began to fall heavily at Tramonto, they went through Curvone and he had a l𓆉ittle moment and went off-track. He immediately panicked and thought ‘I am going to make the decision early’.
“Sometimes it is the right call. But with the radars, a🐼ll the information, it wasn’t telling 🐈us that there would be heavy rainfall.
“History is that it will be a lig💝ht bit of rain. It’s not going to wet the track. He panicked, ma💦de the wrong decision, had to make a double pitstop to change back.
ඣ“It’s frustrating for him and the whole Pramac team.”
Hodgson added:🌳 "There is an unspoken rule, in that situation if it starts to drizzle, yo🌠u keep your eye on your main championship rivals.
"He was in the perfec🃏t position, sat behind Pecco.
"[If he was leading], a🎉nd he came in, and everybody else went out then it would 🐟be a mistake. But [boxing from third, behind Bagnaia] makes the mistake bigger.
"He has made nඣo mistakes this year. Yes,🐓 he crashed in Germany. But his decision-making on the race track has been outstanding.
"B🤪ut this could haunt him for theꦡ rest of his life. He had a 26-point lead in the championship!
"It wasn't worth the g🐎amble, and it did not pay off."
'You do not gamble', Jorge Martin told
Laverty 💃continued: “It beggars belief, to be honest.
“To be in control of 🍷every emotion he’s dealt with this season, then h🐼ave a split-second decision…
“He had 🧸all of the information. He had Pecco in front of him. You mark your championship rivꦗal, in these scenarios.
“You do not gamble. 💛You do 🔜it if you’re outside the points.
“I just do not know what Martin was thinking. It’s th♔e first time he’s blinked all yea🧸r, and not done the right thing.
“Nineteen points, essentially, he has given away to Bagnaia, on a day where he didn’t need to. He was ✤in control. The pressure gets to everyone.
“Pecco dealt with it well. Martin has been through this before - at the Sachsenring he threw away a potential 25 points - but he bounced bac♕k.
“I really didn’t see it happening, I🍃 didn’t see Martin making that type of mistake.”
Laverty continued: “Jorge has to brush this off. It was a🍬n error of judgement. He made the wrong ca𒀰ll and will be frustrated.”
MotoGP ride🐈rs will be back on the Misano track on Monday for the official test.
The racing resumes in a fortnight - again at Misano🍒 - for the Emilia-Romagna MotoGP.
James was a sports journalist aℱt Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Ameri🌠can sports, to football, to F1.
