Jorge Martin warns beating Francesco Bagnaia “really difficult task” in Misano sprint

“It will be a really difficult task ▨to beat Pecco”

Jorge Martin, Pramac Ducati, Emilia Romagna MotoGP 2024
Jorge Martin, Pramac Ducati, Emilia Romagna MotoGP 2024
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Pᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚramac’s Jorge Martin believes it will be hard to beat Francesco Bagnaia in Saturday’s MotoGP Emilia Romagna Grand Prix sprint after his rival dominated for pole.

After Friday practice, ꦇboth on outright speed and long run pace, Bagnaia and Martin emerged as ౠclear favourites to battle for victory throughout the rest of the Misano weekend.

In qualifying, Bagnaia and Martin were a cut above the rest, with the former 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:setting a new lap record to take po🧔le by 0.214s over the championship leader - while Enea Bastianini was a further 0.319s back in third.

While improving on his fourth place from Misano qualifying last time out, Martin is🎀 predicting beating Bagnaia again in this afternoon’s sprint “will be a really difficult task”.

“Well, I don’t know abou♔t the race,” he told TNT Sport when asked about his prospects f🗹or the sprint.  

“For sure I focus on myself and I🍰 think I can do🤡 it.

“It will 🙈be a really difficult task to beat Pecco today, but ♛I will give my 100%.

“I feel comfortable, I’m super happy th𒀰at we improved the qualifying position because two weeks ago I was struggling quite a lo🐼t.

“So, overall, I think we are working quite well and Pecco, he’s in a good s𒊎hape,𓃲 so I will try to stop him.”

Martin added th♏at he has had to go between set-ups for his qualifying and race bikes because he has struggled to get the best out of his machine in time attack trim at Misano.

“I’m quite ok,” he said.

“I think it it seems like we are doing different set-ups: one for qualifying, one for the race bec✃aus𓆉e in this situation with this grip I struggle to do time attacks.

“So, we will go back to ouওr standard bike for the race.”

Mar🔴tin says his final Q2 lap was compromised by the fact he didn’t leave enough space to his Pramac team-mate Franco Morbidelli, as he caught up to the back of the Italian much quicker than anticipated.

“Was a good position, but maybe [I needed to] leave a bit more space to Frankie because as soon as I was in t💟he second sector I already caught him,ꦉ” he said of his final lap.

“So, I think it was difficult to improve. But I think I have still some gap [to improve]. So, for the race I feel competi🧜tive.” 

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