Pecco Bagnaia He took all the headlines for his double in Assen, with ‘Grand Chelem’, records and so on, but that does not mean that MotoGP leader continues to be Jorge Martín, with ten points advantage. Also, replicating with two second places and putting pressure on the champion. For this reason, the man from Madrid and his squad get a lot of positive conclusions.
Starting with the fortaleza shown by Martinator. “I would say it is solidity. In addition, maturity, also, speed and knowing that it was a weekend, in which Friday started very badly. It is what it is, it is true, we were very far behind, we were more than half a second behind Pecco and we were able to reach one and a half seconds on Saturday and one second on Sunday. Where there was half a second, we have taken it to a tenth. So great work from the team, great work by Jorge. If we turn a difficult weekend into two second places, it is, truly, very positive for the entire season,” he explained Gino Borsoihis team leader at MARCA.
In his squad they notice that he is another pilot, a tougher candidate. “Evidently, He is a Jorge Martín 3.0, completely different from what it was last year. In 2023, he was fast and lacked this consistency. Above all, he lacked this way of understanding racing: when on the weekend you can’t take it anymore, well you have to be happy. Be careful, when you say you can’t take it anymore, it means that these two in Assen, both Martín and Pecco were in another category. The others were a world away. The level has been so brutal that Martín has been spectacular, because if we took Pecco out of the equation, he would have taken five seconds off everyone. They were both incredible in a very good weekend for the team and for Jorge,” explained the leader.
Confirmation and release
And in his box there was no euphoria, no shouts, but there were gestures of assent, slaps on the back and faces that denoted that the plot to take the crown is still standing. They certified that Ducati’s decision not to upgrade him to his official training and his signing for Aprilia It has only freed him. “I think that It affected him much more before, because you are in doubt, you don’t know what is happening. Now he has had three weeks to internalize it and he already knows that his future is assured. Furthermore, with a bike that has shown this weekend that it is still there. They will evolve, obviously. Now, he just has to think about what he’s going to do between now and the end of the season, like all of us. We have this approach, of working race by race, without making mistakes. On Sunday, and throughout the weekend, we did not make any mistakes. The choice of the medium front tire was the correct one, with the hard one, perhaps, he could not have gone that fast. The whole team is stronger than the previous year,” confessed the executive and former competitor.
Last chance… of the team
Because in the Prima Pramac They don’t make him see that it could be his last chance to achieve the twist. Rather, he believes that with his own passage to Yamaha, they are what will live other times, of evolution and growth. “No. Surely it will not be his last chance to be champion. You never know, every year things improve, each manufacturer improves its features. Look at Aprilia where it was years ago and where it is now. So anything can happen. Maybe it could be our last year as a team. The best? Who knows, Jorge has a long way to go ahead, he has as much that can be with Aprilia as with any other brand,” said Borsoi.
