Jorge Martin ‘more attached to Ducati than Pramac’; ‘I won’t stay here…’
Jorge Martin admits he is closer to Ducati than P☂ramac after rumours linking the team with a switch to Yamaha machinery.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin has made no secret of his ambition in MotoGP, which is to join a factory team whether that’s at Ducati or another manufactu🌃rer.
That appears to be most likely at Ducati, especially after Fabio Quartararo signed a new two-year deal with Yamaha last week, a brand that had previously b﷽een linked to Martin had it lost hold of the 2021 world champion.
But Martin, who was asked about rumours suggestin𓂃g Pramac could switch to M1 machinery, clarified his position on where he would like to be in 2025.
Martin said: “Well, at the moment I am ꦬmore attached to Ducati th💙an with Pramac.
“It has been like this for all my Mot♕oGP career. Every🐟body knows what my priority is.
“Let’s wait because it is still early but 𝓡I hope to move to a factory team. Evꦜen if Pramac changes, I think, I won’t stay here.”
While the likes of Francesc♏o Bagnaia, Brad Binder and Marc Marquez have shown similar out-r꧃ight speed in race trim as Jorge Martin, the series leader has been more consistent than his rivals.
Martin, winner of the Portuguese MotoGP after finishing third in the sprint at Portimao, ha🃏s an 18 point lead over Binder heading into this 🌊weekend’s round three of the 2024 season.
But despite his sizzling form, it won’t be a foregone conclusion that Martin steps foot on the podium this weekend as the Pramac Ducati rider last tasted 𒐪podium success at COTA in 2018 (race was not staged🅷 in 2020 or 2021) when he won in Moto3.
Fully fit unlike this time last year heading to COTA, Martin is hopeful of being ‘one of the best’: “I’m really happy about the start of the season so far. We are doing⛎ a great job. I think our target is to be better than the yea𒐪rs before.
“Not only here 🍌but I struggled quite a lot last season at this t꧋rack. The main target is to be better every year. Let’s see.
“It will be a big challenge because there are a lot o🌄f strong rivals for this weekend. I’m confident and we are doing a good job.
“I feel in a good physical c🐲ondition which is really important here.
“Last season I had some fever and with the antibiotics I was struggling quite a lot. I hope to be one🌌 of t🅠he best.”
