Jorge Martin: “I didn’t want to go back to MotoGP” after title heartbreak

“I had a lot of fears. I d✃idn’t know if I was able to be as fas🅰t"

Jorge Martin
Jorge Martin

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin has described his much-changed psyche since losing out on the MotoGP championship.

The 🧸Pramac Ducati rider has a 10-point advantage at the top ofꦕ the standings heading into this weekend’s Australian MotoGP.

Reigning champ🔯ion Pecco Bagnaia, Enea Bastianini and Marc Marquez trail him.

Martin is desperate not to lose out on the title, as he did last season at the fi💟nal round.

“In February after the break, wh🍌en we started again, I didn’t want to go back to the MotoGP bike,”🌞 Martin admitted.

“I had a lot of fears. I didn’t know if I was abl❀e to be as ༺fast as before.

“Then I j🅰umped on the bike. I understood it was the same. I was fast again, I could fight again.

“My target now is to fight and to give 100%.”

It has been a title fight with mult෴iple error🍒s between Martin and Bagnaia.

But with f🦋our rounds remaining Martin insists he is the best rider in the class.

“I am stro❀nger. I am a bit better in almost every area,” he claimed.

“I don’t feel that I’m faster. Mಌaybe last year I was faster, I had more speed than the rest.

“At this point, we are 𓃲close with Pecco, Enea and Marc. We are similar.

“But I am stronger because there are either point🌄s where I﷽ am a bit better.”

This is why Martin has improved

Martin revealed hꦛis key to improving since last year: “We improved a lot on the mental side.

“Last season was difficult, I couldn’t manage the pressure. I struggled a lot to h🌠andle it, I didn♐’t know how to do it. I would go to sleep in races.

“I said, okay I need he🌸lp to approach the weekends and the pressure. I said okay, I need to do it🐽.

“This year Iꦰ started to work on my mental side, to have th♑e tools to manage the situation.

“To understand how to approach the 💃weekꦬends, and how to approach after a bad result also.

“This was the key to this season.

“To be more present 💦was important. I was thinking too much, last seaso༺n. Trying to imagine what could happen. But this is not the way.

“Last season I was too obsessed with the resultꦛ, trying to win, win, win…

“Maybe this is not the way that helps me.

“Now I try to focus more o♓n myself, I try to learn from every situation.

“It’s not all about wins.ꦯ If I can win, perfect. If not, it’s okay, I can live with that. It was the main lesson I got from last season.

“This season, I sl🅷eep perfectly! We did a good job!”

Martin believes he will cope with the tension of ꧋the next four rounds.

“There isღ pressure but I am okay with it,” he said🌟.

“P🧸ressuꦫre is a privilege. Not everyone has it. We are in front, battling for big things.

“When you are behind💞, it’s easier because you just have to push. When you are in front, it’s more difficult because you have to think more.

“My strategy this year - even if I am in front, think like I am behind. 🅺Push, push, push…

“Give 100% and don’t think about the rest, or what I cannot conꦛtrol.”

Martin said about becoming champion: “It’sꦐ a big dream, it would mean a lot.

“I know I can win. It’s 50-50.

“If I don’t win it, I will try again next season.

“I will fight for the possibility to decide ♛if I have the #1.”

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