To the Madrid Jorge Martín (Ducati) He is beginning to look like a future world champion. MotoGP. After ending up exhausted and on the verge of Dr. Ángel Charte had to use the defibrillator in the ‘corralito’ of India, the boy from Pramac, Ducati’s ‘satellite’ team, has once again starred today, this morning, at noon in Motegi, Japan, an authentic and very powerful exhibition on the circuit owned by Honda. Martín, who took first place as soon as the red light went out, dominated all the laps and won ahead of the surafricano Brad Bindir (KTM) and of his own ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia (Ducati)current world champion, who has lost five more points in the sprint test compared to Martín.
When the Austrian Grand Prix concluded, Martín was 62 points behind Bagnaia. Now, with tomorrow’s race in Japan and six more weekends to go, ‘Martinator’ is only 8 points behind the Italian and could even take the lead in the MotoGP World Championship tomorrow if the result of the race long run is similar to today. “The trick, I insist,” said Martín at the conclusion of today’s mini-race, “is not to think about the leadership or the title, it is to run with desire and enthusiasm and, above all, preparing very well each weekend. Today I I felt very strong again and I knew, I said it yesterday, that if I passed the first corner of Motegi first, it was going to be very, very difficult to overtake me throughout the 12 laps of the test.
Spectacular Martin
And that’s what he did and that’s what happened. Martín, who this morning achieved a spectacular pole position, went out like a rocket and although, in principle, the two KTMs of Binder and the Australian Jack Miller, who were debuting a new carbon chassis here, were paid for very quickly, they were never able to He caught up with him, although the South African driver, already clearly the leader of the Austrian factory, tried in the first five laps.
Martín even lapped at the end half a second faster per lap than the others and, in the end, he managed to take five more points off Bagnaia, who, in the last laps, already far from Binder, second, had a beautiful fight with Miller to scratch the podium and, above all, save one more point that, who knows, may give him the title at the end of the season. “Jorge is going through his best moment, offering great performance and, for now, we can only defend ourselves against him,” commented the Ducati champion.
Closer to the leader
It is, therefore, Martín’s fifth victory on Saturdays, the last three in a row, as he also won in San Marino, India and, today, in Japan. It is also the fifth victory for the Madrid driver on Saturday and, in that sense, with his victory today in Motegi he surpasses Bagnaia by one: five to four.
Marc Márquez (Honda), who achieved (almost) a feat by placing seventh on the grid and being the fastest in Q1, started very well and remained fifth for a long time, just behind Bagnaia, but in the end he could not resist the attacks from the Frenchman Johann Zarco (Ducati) and the Italian Marc Bezzecchi (Ducati) and finished in an honorable seventh position, very, very far away from his brand mates, as always: 13. Joan Mir; 17. Takaaki Nakagami and 20. Stefan Bradl.
Drivers’ World Cup: 1. ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia (Italy, Ducati), 299 points; 2. Jorge Martín (España, Ducati), 291; 3. Marco Bezzecchi (Italy, Ducati), 252; 4. Brad Binder (Surafrica, KTM), 201 and 5. Johann Zarco (France, Ducati), 162.
2023-09-30 09:19:09
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