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 maintaining a healthy lead in the championsh🌞ip.
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 38 points from Bagnaia to 37 points to Mar🐼c Marquez.
“Difficult, really difficult,” Martin bemoaned. “It wasও a really bad day. The feeling was re🌜ally bad.
“I started bad and tried to recove🐎r in the first corners. This was a disaster because I overheated the rear too much. It never recovered.
“After, I trieꦑd to make lap time with the front by entering fast and turning. It didn’t work.
“Even on a bad day, I got fourth posi🐭tion. Maybe it wasn’t a real pꦜosition because there were crashes but maybe this is because they pushed too much.”
Martin explained why his start was so bad: “I couldn’t try this set-up and this clutch. It was straight into the race. It was unpredictable, t𝓰hen a bad start.
“Tomorrow I will try to understand in the 🀅warm-u෴p.”
Martin witnessꦆed Raul Fernandez, Brad Binder and Bagnaia all crash out from thꦏe lead.
Did it 🅰make him more careful, with the podium narrowly eluding him?
“I’d prefe꧂r to fe🌳el bad and to get fourth position, than feel good and crash,” he said.
“I saw the❀ crashes and my feeling was really bad, in that moment, so maybe I wasn’t the only one.
“I was losing the front in every corner.
“The pressure was okay. It was about temperature.
“Let’s try🧸 for a better start. I was 11th ဣin the first corner.”
Despite emerging with his title lead still🎃 strong, Martin was disappointed.
“My target is to be on the podium. Today we did not achieve my goal,” th♚e Pramac Ducati rider said.
“We have potential for the podium and the 🌟victory.
“🦂I struggle behind riders. 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 medi🌼um, I can do a better job.”
Aleix Espargaro won the spꦓrint ahead of M🐈arquez and Pedro Acosta.
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