The first big day of Jorge Martin has arrived. This Saturday could be the happier of his life if he ends up proclaiming world champion of MotoGP. It is his first match point, which he can materialize if he wins the Sprint or if he gets two points from Bagnaia even if I don’t win it. It is his specialty, the short race, for explosives like him, but he does not have everything with him. It is not clear to him that everything will end this Saturday. “I don’t feel very good on the soft ones. I feel better on the hard ones. So, I trust more in Sunday’s race. On Saturday, I think it is practically impossible to close the World Cup, that’s for sure. I don’t want to rush to close it prematurely and cause an error and then mess up. Prefer, now focus on Q2; once we do Q2, we’ll see. I still find myself in a privileged position; same, no. From there, we will see what is needed to close it,” he confessed.
What he does feel is prepared in case he has to sentence. “I am prepared for everything, to be champion on Saturday or Sunday, the day you can. The first thing of all is to try to be competitive. Without being competitive, I won’t have the option of anything, so right now the goal is to be competitive and more so than today. It hasn’t been an easy day and Tomorrow it will be important to improve.”
One of the questions this Friday in Montmeló was to know which of the two was more nervous. Pecco went to the floor stupidly in the morning and admits that he makes a Lego Batmobile to kill his nerves. “I’m calm and he did it first in the afternoon, so We can both be calm. In the end, I focus on my work and I don’t think much about the World Cup or the result.”
A strange Friday
“I haven’t led all the training sessions, butwas in the ‘top 5’, as I usually am. There was very little time and many tires. I had to try them, it wasn’t because ‘I don’t feel well and I’ll try others’. Simply, I wanted to try them all. Once you try them all, the work for this Saturday is reduced. “I think it was more important to work harder and focus on the setup.”
Aleix gave him a hand giving him a wheel, something that Bezzecchi He didn’t seem to want to do it. “It just so happened that Aleix and I went out together and he goes fast here. If you want to give me a little help, I’m not going to deny it. “Marco pulled, he made his turn there, what happened is that I almost fell and I couldn’t follow him.”
Turn 5 is the one where you lie almost completely on the piano, touching your shoulder on the asphalt, but it has also been the place where he suffered the biggest scare this Friday. “The shoulder thing, a bit of a show. In the end, it is fun and I take it as a game to touch the shoulder. As a normal pilot, I am very close, but I don’t support myself directly or I lie on the pianobut yes, the curve where I do the show, then He almost knocked me to the ground. “It’s good to reach the limit a little, to know how far I can go so that tomorrow I have a reference.”
Difficult track conditions
“As for maps, the track is very difficult. Normally, all tracks have the same grip and you can work on a more solid foundation. Here, all plans change and you have to make almost one map per curve. Friday’s work is very difficult. We ran here six months ago, it’s peculiar that you arrive and it doesn’t work nothing you had brought. But I think it’s not just for me; It’s for everyone. We have work to focus on those maps.”
“As for driving, having to change so many things, the only thing it does is make you everything becomes more difficult. Or less natural, because when you ride the MotoGP it is nothing like another street bike and when the maps help you, everything comes very natural, it goes very well. But when that doesn’t accompany you, it becomes the opposite, like a runaway horse and it costs a lot to carry it. When I have confidence, I do very well, but when I lack confidence a bit, I think I suffer more than in any other situation, because I anticipate having a fall or getting hurt or anything like that. So, yes, it can affect me a little more.”
