MADRID, 29 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish rider Jorge Martín (Ducati) has assured that this Sunday he “did not” feel “strong enough to win” the Thai Grand Prix race, but has explained that he has ridden “very intelligently” to resist the Italian’s push. Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati), and has acknowledged that the Indonesia-Australia-Thailand triptych has “destroyed” him mentally.
“I haven’t slept, I was thinking about the next day. And this Sunday, finally, I was able to relax. I need four or five days to disconnect from the bikes because this triplet has been, really, quite hard, especially on a mental level. “It has destroyed me. I have a week and a half to recover now, I am going with friends to Bali to recharge my batteries and arrive dark in Malaysia,” he joked in statements to DAZN.
Furthermore, he confessed that he already feels the pressure, only 13 points behind ‘Pecco’ in the MotoGP general standings. “I can already admit that the pressure is felt, but the truth is that after winning the sprint race on Saturday I didn’t enjoy it at all. I was very focused on Sunday’s race, I couldn’t enjoy the moment,” he said.
Regarding this Sunday’s race, the Madrid native assured that he managed to drive in a “very intelligent” way. “This Sunday I didn’t feel strong enough to win, but I was one of the candidates. Coming out in front helped me a lot to manage a lot of rubber at the beginning and I think that I used that millimeter of rubber that was left alive on the last lap. to give everything in attack mode,” he said.
“I have had a very intelligent management career, saving rubber every time I could. I saw that ‘Pecco’ was getting closer and closer and when I saw that he was close I started to shoot, but I no longer had rubber left. Brad Binder “He started to fight with me, I gave him all the fights I could and in the end I thought he would leave, but the moment he passed me I saw that he used the rubber too much and I was able to attack him again,” he added.
He also assured that it was the “most beautiful race of my life.” “When I saw ‘Pecco’ on the outside in the last corner I said ‘you’re not going to pass me now’. I couldn’t have forgiven myself. On the inside he would have passed me for sure, but on the outside I couldn’t let him pass. “That action gave me half a tenth, I started to push like crazy on the last lap for those two-three tenths that helped me braking on the last lap not to brake so late,” he concluded.
2023-10-29 11:21:00
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