A MotoGP race winner for the first time since Austria in 2021, Martin beat reigning world champion Francesco Bagnaia to victory, after already winning his second sprint of the season on Saturda🦄y.

The Pramac rider, who didn’t have things all his own way unlike the sprint, was able to respond when Bagnaia passed him at turn 11 with nine laps to go, as he made🌠 the same overtake as on lap three.

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After five podiums in a row, which includes🅷 his Le Mans sprint win, Martin called it an emotional victory🌞.

ജ"It ⛎was so emotional today to win. I struggled quite a lot last season to be competitive and it was really frustrating. 

"But we’ve come back this season and I’ve been strong almost everywhere. Being on the podium so many times and missing that victory b꧂ut today it came. 

"Today was a tough🌠 race. Pecco improved a lot. He did an amazing step from yesterday to today - I saw it already in the warm-up. 

"I was looking at the data and saw it was the same rider, so he improved a lot. I tried to do the same as yester🏅day and make this small gap. 

"But I was going too much into the rear tyre so I sa꧃id it’s better that he catches me and let’s see what happens at the end. 

"When he overtook me, I changed the strategy a🍃 little because I thought he was going to be with a little bit more tyre. I wanted to fight back s🦋traight away. He was pushing a lot and it wasn’t easy to keep the concentration."

Martin and 𝓀Bagnaia, along with another Ducati rider in Johann Zarco, proved that overtaking at Sachsenring was possible which was something others struggled to do.

And while not everyone agreed that Sachsenring was a good circuit for overtaking, Martin a💮nd Bagnaia f𒈔elt as though it wasn’t an issue. 

Martin said: "It’s not easy b𝓀ut in the first lap I went from sixth to second, also I did that yesterday. 

"I feel like it was difficult to overtake and for sure it is not a track that is easy [to overtake], but I think there are rider🎉s that can overtake better and some that struggle a bit more.” 

"It’s not the first time that we’ve heaಞrd something like that,” added Bagnaia. “I remember in Jerez we did a race of just overtaking. 

"Today we d🔯emonstrated that if you’re able to overtake and you have the speed, then you can do it."