Martin’s Aprilia MotoGP switch: “The difficult thing for Jorge will be…”

“To jum꧃p on another bike that is not at the same level, it's not going to be easy.”

Jorge Martin, Aleix Espargaro
Jorge Martin, Aleix Espargaro

As well as the challenge of a different machine, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aleix Espargaro acknowledges there will be times when 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin needs to adapt 🌜his mindset during next year's Ducati-to-Aprilia s🍌witch.

The current MotoGP title leader is effectively replacing Espargaro at Aprilia’s fac🔜tory team in 2025.

But while Espargaro worked his way from the back of the grid during eight years on the RS-GP, Martin’s whole MotoGP career has been spent w🐭ith Pramac Ducati, where he was a winner in only his sixth grand prix.

Ducati’s Desmosedici continues to dominate this year’s world championship, filling the top four positions in the standings, winnin🐽g every grand prix except COTA and all but three Sprints.

Aprilia is the only other manufacturer to have won, courtesy o꧙f a grand prix victory for Maverick Vinales at COTA plus Sprint wins ꧑at Portimao (Vinales), COTA (Vinales) and Catalunya (Espargaro).

But while Ducati is unbeaten in a Sprint or 🌠Grand Prix o🐽ver the past seven rounds, Aprilia struggled badly in the last two events at Aragon and Misano. 

Vinales' has now slipped behind KTM ridꦐers Brad Binder and Pedro Acosta for seventh in the world championship. Espargaro is nin🌃th.

Dealing with that kind of difficult weekend, where all riders on the 💟same bike are struggling, will be a new experience for Martin.

“The difficult thing for Jorge will be that I cam🐈e from P20 and reached a couple of victories, which is n💮ot easy, but it meant I got used to riding a not good bike. And he's now riding the best bike. Winning races. Being the fastest every session,” Espargaro said.

“So to jump on another bike that is not at the same level, it's not going to ꦅbe easy. But his desire was to come to Aprilia. He had other options and he chose Aprilia. So no regrets.

“It's not going to be easy, but it's the▨ decision he took. You need to go full [commitment] and Aprilia has the capacity to tune up the bike to him and he has enou𒐪gh speed to be the number one in Aprilia.

“So nothing is easy, but he will make it [work].”

Martin’s lead over Ducati's rꦦeigning champion Francesco Bagnaia has been reduced to just seven points heading into this weekend’s second Misano round, after a costly pit-stop error in the San Marino GP.

“He knows he made a mistake and he will learn. It wꦦill make him stronger,” Espargaro said. “This is part of the process.”

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