Jorge Martín: “Two laps before falling I was the king of the paddock and now I’m not the worst either”
Jorge MartinOf course, I was disappointed his fall in the long race of MotoGP of Germany when he was close to victory. Not even he explains it. He is only clear that he will return to being who he was before the accident, that triumphs will come.
Sensations.
“It is an important moment in my career to understand why this happens to me. There have already been two this year, leading, going to the ground in a similar situation and there is something there that I don’t know if it is on a mental level or on a driving level, but there is something to improve and nothing, I have no choice but to get up, keep fighting, coldly analyze what could have happened and focus on giving my best version again.”
The fall.
“I can’t tell you much. This is not the time to make any excuses. In the end, if there is a crash, there is a mistake. It is simply about understanding it, analyzing it well. Right now, I can tell you the same thing as in Jerez, but not “It would be true. I prefer, with time, to analyze well why this is happening to me. It hurts, obviously, and I haven’t had time, either, to look at it. Nothing, it will be a difficult night to sleep and tomorrow we will start working again.”
Causes.
“I don’t think it’s even motivation… Two laps before I fell I was the king of the paddock and now I’m not the worst either. What do I know, these are things that can happen. I have to take a cold look at what it is. Right now I couldn’t tell you, but both the crash in Jerez, the one in Mugello, and the one here, have been identical: with brakes, entering a curve, in right-hand curves. There is something that I don’t know what happens with two laps left, I already had it practically done, I had it quite under control, I had the pace, I drove very well, I had Pecco under control, although he recovered that 0.5 from me, I could keep that 0.5 from him so that in the last lap we would have that margin. “We were quite pushed to the limit, but I think I drove very well.”
Race from perfect to imperfect.
“There was a moment in which Pecco overtook me, but it also helped me get away with it. I was saving even more rubber than him, I saw that, at times, it seemed like he was getting away from me, but he was using A lot of rubber. I looked very strong by the end of the race, the truth is. And that’s how it was. Until now, I hadn’t been able to recover the distance and it would have been difficult, I think, until then. good race, I think I drove very well, I was very focused at every moment and a shame about the crash.”
Three weeks to think about it. “That’s the least of it. In the end, it’s three weeks to see the opportunity, see where we’ve failed, see how to improve. I’d rather it happen to me now than to happen in Malaysia. It’s better to have that time to see why.” .
Mindset.
“That’s what I said: not even two laps ago I was the best driver in the world… I’ll work on it. It’s not easy to accept, it’s very frustrating, I’ve had a very bad time in the truck, it’s not easy to assimilate these things and many Sometimes you don’t know how to assimilate them. In the end, you can punch the truck, but it doesn’t do you any good. And I’ve done it. You can start crying, but it doesn’t do you any good. accept it and we have to look ahead and I will focus a lot on improving, I will focus a lot on correcting these mistakes, I will get back to where I need to be and I will win again and all this will be an anecdote.”
Level with respect to Bagnaia.
“I consider that at the driving level I have been superior this weekend. It is clear that I have crashed, that I have not finished the job, but I won yesterday, I took pole and I was going to round the circle. It was not like that. It would be It’s very cool to go on vacation now and enjoy and ‘I’m the king, I’m the King’, but that’s how it is. An opportunity to continue working and to see reality as it is. The pressure, the ball, I pass it on to Pecco and me. to continue working”.
