Jorge Martin’s brutally honest take on leaving MotoGP’s top bike behind

Jo🌄rge Martin quizzed about decision to exit Ducati

Jorge Martin
Jorge Martin

Jorge Martin’s move to Aprilia in 2025 meജans he will leave behind MotoG🏅P’s best bike.

The Ducati GP24 - the machinery of the two riders from the factory and Pramac teams - has proved to be a step aheadܫ of even the year-old version which Marc Marquez rides.

But Marꦚtin will join Aprilia next year which means꧃ a major change of manufacturer.

He was questioned about his true feelings 💦on leaving MotoGP’s best bike to someone else.

“Or not. We don't know that,” he 🐽replied to .

𒁏“In the end we don't know this and I want to think about this year and go race by race.

“After [Barcelona] I will think about next year.

“I don't know what I'm going to find. I don't know if it will be very good or very bad, so I'll thin🌄k abouꦺt it when I have to think about it.”

Martin w꧒as asked if he’d ever reconsidered his decision to quit Ducati.

“No. Never. Not at all,” he insisted.

“I have not 🌃reconsidered that nor aౠm I going to reconsider it.

“In the end, t𒁃here are situations in life where you have to make decisions and this was one.

2I have followed my dream and I hope to ꦆfulfil it.”

Ducati initially appeared set to reward Pramac’s Martin with their 2025 factory ride, but U-turned to select Marquezไ instead.

Martin - who missed out on the coveted red bike for a third time - immꦛediately penned a deal to become a factory Aprilia rider next year.

He 𒅌was asked whether his swift choice was due to his spite for Ducati’s rejection.

“I don't have to say anything,” he claimed.

“E🥂veryone who thinks what they wa𒉰nt. I am very calm with my decision.”

Martin could yet take the #1 plate to Ducati’s𝐆 rival I♔talian manufacturer.

He🐠 will be replacing hisꦛ good friend Aleix Espargaro at Aprilia.

The MotoGP landscape will be hugely different in 2025 when 🀅Pecco Bagnaia and Marquez form a formidable - but potentially volatile - factory Ducati line-up.

Ducati will have six riders, reduced from eig🍒ht. And three factory𒈔 bikes, reduced from four.

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