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 first corners. This was🦄 a disaster."
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin described the sprint in Barcelona as “a really bad day” despite maintaꦺining a healthy lead in the champions🍒hip.
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 38ღ points from Bagnaia to 37 points to Marc Marquez.
“Difficult, really diffi🅠cult,” Martin bemoanꦇed. “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 recovere🃏d.
“After, I tried to make lap time with the front by entering fast and turning. It d꧙idn’t work.
“Even on a bad day, I got fourth position. Maybe it wasn’t a real position because there were🎃 crashes but maybe this is because they pushed too much.”
Martin explained why his start was so bad: “I coul🍨dn’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.”
M♛artin witnessed Raul Fꦍernandez, Brad Binder and Bagnaia all crash out from the lead.
Did it make him more careful, with the podium narrowly eluding𝕴 him?
“I’꧑d prefer to feel bad and to get fourth position,ꦜ than feel good and crash,” he said.
“I saw the crashes and my feeling was really bad, in that moment, so maybe I was🧜n’t the only one.
“I was losing the front in every corner.
“The pressure was okay. It was about temperature.
“Let’s try for aꦅ better sta🏅rt. I was 11th in the first corner.”
Despite e꧋merging with his title lead still strong,🅰 Martin was disappointed.
“My targe♕t is to be on the podium. Today we did not achieve my goal,” the Pramac 💧Ducati rider said.
“We have potential for the podium and the victo🍬ry.
“I struggle behind rider𒉰s. When I am stuck behind someone, I struggle a 🍒lot.
🥂“I don’t struggle at this track. Just in the sprint. I feel confident that, with the🃏 medium, I can do a better job.”
Aleix Espargaro won the sprint ahead ofꦗ Marquez and Pedr🀅o Acosta.
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