2024 is the second consecutive season that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin have battled each other for MotoGP World Championship glory.

But in a reversal of last year, Pramac runner-up Martin has led theꦕ points standings for most of the season.

The Spaniard is 10 points ahead of Bagnaia heading into this we🍎ekend’s Australian MotoGP, the first of four remaining rounds.

Asked how he feels Martin has changed as a rider compared🧸 to last 𒐪season, reigning double champion Bagnaia replied:

“I think theꦓ biggest difference compared to last season is that he started this season much better.

“In terms of the points, he was [nearly] always at the top. He led more or less all the champi🙈onship apart from Qatar, because I won [round one], then Sachsenring and [A𒈔ustria] where I was in front by a few points.

“H𝄹e was quite constant, more than me, we had some unlucky situations for contacts or issues with the bike.

“But what I 💛think he has improved i🐼s that he knows he can win, he knows he can be competitive. So this makes a huge difference.

“It’s the biggest difference I felt when I won my fi🤪rst race in MotoGP and t♈he first time I fought for the championship in 2021. This makes a huge change.

“But in terཧms of the mental side, I think you will not understand it until you arrive at the very last part of the championship.”

Indeed, Bagnaia, who won both his MotoGP t♐itles at the final round, against Fabio Quartararo (2022) and Martin (2023), revealed that the pressure of fighting for the world championship doesn’t get any easier.

“I thought that I was more prepared last year, compared to the year before when I didn’t sleep and I was nervous,” Bagnaia expla🌠ined.

“I thought I was controlling well last year but then when I arrived in Valenc෴ia - I was feeling a bit better because I had a 21-point lead - but the mental side was more or less the same.

“Because you feel the pressure, it’s normal. And you have to fight also against the pres🃏sure.”

2024 is the last time Martin and Bagnaia will fight for a MotoGP title on the same machinery for the foreseeable future with Martin switching to Aprili꧒a aft🔴er Marc Marquez was chosen as Bagnaia's 2025 factory Ducati team-mate.