MotoGP points leader Jorge M🧔artin believes he is “the best rider there is” right now, though concedes he has to “polish things”.

Martin finished runner-up in the championship last seasoꦓn to Francesco Bagnaia 🔯and has led the 2024 points for most of the campaign.

After a🎶 disastrous San Marino Grand Prix, however, he saw his lead cut from 26 points to sev♉en after a strategy gamble in iffy conditions dropped him a lap down the order to 15th.

In an interview with DAZN prior to last weekend’s Misano ro🌞und,♎ Martin was asked who he felt was the best rider on the grid currently.

“It's very difficult,” Martin began.

“What does being the best rider mea💯n? It's very ambiguous, it's very difficult.

“There's a high level, the four of us who are there in the fight, the four with Ducati, Pecc♚o [Bagnaia], Marc [Marquez], Enea [Bastian🎀ini] and I are one step ahead - that's clear.

“At the moment,𓄧 it may𝓰 seem arrogant, but I think I'm the best rider there is.

“I have to polish things, work and improve, that's something I can't stop doing🍃, because if not, in the end, in half a year you go from first to eighth.

“But I think I'm the fastest there is, and the numbe🌳rs show it, it's not just me saying it.”

Martin has scored the most poles of any ri♛der this season, with five to his credit versus two for Bagnaia, one for 🦩Bastianini, one for Maverick Vinales, two for Aleix Espargaro and two for Marc Marquez.

He also has the most sprint wins than anyone with four, though that is only one more than 𝄹chief title rival Bagnaia afte🌸r 13 rounds of the 2024 season.

And in grand prix victories, Martin has only managed ꦍtwo against Bagnaia’s seven, while Marc Marquez has now matched the Pramac rider’s tally following his San Marino GP triumph.

Martin’s championship lead has largely been kept intact through the Spaniard’s consistency, ha꧅ving failed to score points on just three occas🔥ions in 2024.

In the same DAZN interview, Martin admits he ‘felt like a fool’ after Ducat𝔉i elected to go back on its decision to promote him to its factory team in favour of Marquez.

Martin will join the factory Aprilia squad instead in 2025 alongsideಞ Marco Bezzecchiﷺ, while Pramac Racing will ditch Ducati machinery to partner up with Yamaha.