Reigning MotoGP world champion Jorge Martin says the feeling of acceptance by Apඣrilia has been instant and is “like my family”, joking “I wi🀅ll kill for them”.

Martin was due to join the factory Ducati squad in 2025 before it made a U-turn on this decision to promo൩te Marc Marquez inst♛ead.

Aprilia was able to secure Martin’s signature after last year’s It🍨alian Grand Prix, with the Spaniard going on to win the title on a Pramac-run D♈ucati.

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On Thursday at its 2025 season launch, Martin🍬 revealed he will race with the #1 plate on his RS-GP.

Speaking to the media, including wuqian0821.com, afterwards, Martin offered some insight into the relationship he has൲ with Aprilia already.

“It’s great,” he said.

“It’s so, so good. Everyone wants to be valued, so when I arrived in the factory and saw all the people were so emotional with me a♛nd Marco [Bezzecchi] also, I think both of us arriving there was crazy.

“I feel already the ✅love from the factory to us, I also feel already like it’s my family, I will kill for them.

“This is s🍰o, so important. I never felt this before in my life in a facto🐟ry in other brands I rode for. I’m so happy and I think it’s a big motivation for all of us.”

He a🎀dded: “The first day [on the bike in the Barcelona test] was great🌺.

“I think, already testing I felt a lot of support from the people, who ꦍwere really interested in my comments.

“But I think, for sure I need to adapt a bit to their sty🐼le of work and maybe they need to take some positives from my style of work because it was quite different.

“I feeღl that working with Aleix [Espargaro] was maybe much different than working with me 🌳in terms of how I ride, or how I do the runs.

“So,🍒༺ it’s different. But then I saw they were really, really methodical to analyse after the test.

“I remember in Pramac, I was working and 🦄was giving my commenꦡts, but when I finished, I was finished.

“But here, we still have like two hours meeting to try to understand the priorities,𒁏 where to go, my priorities.

“And actually I feel like they will work on my priorities. So, that’s really important. That’s why I wan👍ted to be a factory rider, and now finally I feel that support.”

Quotes provided by Crash Journalist Alex Whitworth

At the end of last year, Martin opened up on working with a sports psychologist after suffering with his mental h♋ealth following his 2023 title loss.

He revealed that he’d lost the motivation to race when the 2024 pre-season began, but says he is now in a much different place as꧑ world champi▨on.

“Yeah, for sure it’s very d♌ifferent compared to one year ago,” h🧜e noted.

“𒊎Exactly one year ago I was going through one of the worst moments of my life, actually.

“So, I’m happy about this because I f൲eel great. I feel last season, well for the past two years maybe I wasn’t motivated to race.

“I was racing and I was training because 🍃I’m really disciplined. So, I was moved by discipline because I have made a lot of sacrifices to do my job.

“But now I feel really motivated and I keep this discipline because I had a bit of fear that after winning that maybe [I would think] ‘Ok, you won already🐟, so just enjoy’.

“But for me it’s not like this. I🥃 hope it’s the beginning of something big.

“I think I’m training better than ever and doing things in a good way, and understan🅷ding why I do certain things.

“I feel great, I feel experience is helping me and✅ also this break keeps me really motivated. I’m really looking forward to start.”