Jorge Martin’s manager Albert Valera says the 2024 MotoGP champion ‘does🌠n’t have ego problems’ and is “above” comments made about Ducati’s 2025 line-up.

Martin was set to join Ducati’s factory squad this season before the🍨 brand elected to make a U🌱-turn to promote Marc Marquez instead, after the latter refused a works bike at Pramac and threatened to join a rival brand.

Sig🎶ning for Aprilia as a result, Martin we🍃nt on to win the 2024 title on a Pramac-run Ducati.

Ducati had admit๊ted its decision to let Martin go wa🐓s tough, while in recent weeks Gigi Dall’Igna has branded Marquez “a better rider”.

In response to this, Valera tol🧔d Motorsport.com: “We don't have ego problems.

“When you have too💫 much ego it 🉐prevents you from seeing things clearly and sleeping well, it makes you waste time getting angry over comments like this.

“But i🎃f there's a rider who doesn't let himself be influe✃nced by these types of things, it's Jorge, and that makes me very calm.

“We are above these types of comments.

“When Duꦜcati rejected us, Jorge's feeling was not anger, but calm, and that's what allowed him to face the rest☂ of the season as he did.

“Knowing where he would race in the next few years, that he would be ꧂happy, that his future was assured and that he had closed, for better or for worse, his chapter with Ducati, were the real secret of the title🐽 won in 2024.”

While Martin is expected to lead Aprili🌊a at the factory squad this season, Valera says his rider has not asked to be team leader.

“Jorge is a person who is very respectf🍷ul and has absolutely no ego problems,” he added.

“He has never asked to be recognised as the first Aprili𝄹a rider, on the contrary: he is aware that he needs a strong rider at his side to carry the project forward together.”

Aprilia launched its 2025 season last week, with Martin unveilinꦏg the #1 plate on the front of the RS-GP he will race🤪 with this year.

Ducati brushed this off during its launch event, with Dal🔯l’Igna noting that “in this case it’s just a number”.