Jorge Martin: “If they didn't pick me, I would have left motorbikes”

“It was so emotional, because if they didn't pick me I think I would have left motorbiꦍkes”

Jorge Martin, Red Bull Rookies Cup
Jorge Martin, Red Bull Rookies Cup

Of all the key moments in new MotoGP world champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin’s caree𒅌r, perhaps the most pi🐠votal came long before he even reached the grand prix paddock.

After winning races in numerous Sp🍷ani🐎sh championships, Martin applied to join the Red Bull Rookies Cup - but was initially turned down.

“Wit꧅hout the Red Bull Roo﷽kies Cup, I wouldn't be here,” Martin said after winning the MotoGP title at the Barcelona finale. 

“This, I can assure you.

"Because we were a normal family. 🅺It’s not that we were poor, but normal, s💮o we didn't have the money [to keep racing].

“But when I went to the Rookies Cup for the first time, I was quite young. I had never even 🎐tried a 125. I was fast but they told me, ‘Come back one year after'.

“I came back and I was the fastest. So th𓂃anks to thℱeir advice I was improving.

"When they accepted me it was so em🌞otional, because if they didn't pick me at that time, I think I would have left motorbikes.”

Martin fini𝕴shed 12th in the 2012 Red Bull R🧸ookies Cup, finished runner-up in 2013 and won the title in 2014.

“I was three years in the Rookies Cup and finally I won it. It was a really important moment in my career,” he said.
    
That success propelled Martin 💯into grand prix ꩲthe following season, with the Aspar Mahindra team, where his team-mate was future MotoGP title rival Francesco Bagnaia.

Aleix Espargaro a🎶lso stepped in to help Martin's career, supplying him with traꦍining bikes and treating him like a 'son'.

Jorge Martin, MotoGP champion, Barcelona 2024
Jorge Martin, MotoGP champion, Barcelona 2024

In his Red Bull Rookies profi⛄le, compiled ahead of the 2013 season, Martin stated his ambitions:

"Everything began at the age of six, my father was a motorcycling enthusiast and amateur rider, and when the ‘Three Magic Kings’ brought me a pocket bike I followed his steps.

“I want to become world champion and beat my idol Valentino Rossi's records.”

Martin won his first world title in Mo🅰to3 with Gresini,꧟ in 2018, adding the second in MotoGP with Pramac Ducati this year.

The 🐓Spaniard, 26, is among 23 ex-Rookies to have won an FIM world title and one of eleven to reach theಞ MotoGP class.

The others are Johann Zarco, Joಞan Mir, Miguel Oliveira, Brad Binder, Lorenzo 🐬Savadori, Enea Bastianini, Darryn Binder, Fabio di Giannantonio, Raul Fernandez and Pedro Acosta.

“I'm 💮so proud of [the Red Bull Rookies Cup],” Martin said. “They gave me the opportunity🐟.”

🔴Reflecting on becoming the first satellite rider to win the♍ ‘MotoGP’ title, the 2025 Aprilia signing said:

“I could💙 leave motorbikes and still be the happiest guy on the planet, but I'm really motivated for my future.

“Pecco and I ar﷽e still so young, we have maybe 8-10 yearꦗs [of racing] in front of us.

“And now that I’ve won a Mot🍸oGP title, if I have another opportunity, I will be much more prepa⭕red.

“But winning the title won't change my l🎃ife a lot. It's more for my family and for the team.”

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