168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin wrote his name into the history books as the first Independent rider to win a title in the MotoGP era after a tense season finale in Ba🍒rcelona on Sunday.

The Pramac Ducati star became Spain’s fifth premier-class champion with a third-place finish, in a race won by title rival and defending double champion Francesco Bagnaia of the officiaꦜl Ducati team.

“I still can't believe it, I'm in shock!” said Martin, fresh from the podium celebraꦐ𒀰tions. “Emotions are high, I’ve cried a lot!

“Now I just wa▨nt to celebrate with my team, family ꧅and friends.

“It's been a long journey. My career w꧑asn't easy. For sure, I had good opportunities but I think I built them. I worked quite hard. I made a lot of sacrifices.

“Last season I had the opportunity, but I think I wasn't prepared to sign [complete the deal]ܫ let's say. But this year I felt it was my year.

“Thanks to Pramac, thanks to Ducati for giving ⛦me the opportunity to have an amazing bike these four years and giving me the opportunity to fight until the end with an amazin💛g Pecco.”

Martin: I was really scared!

Martin’s consistency this season meant he needed only a ninth-pl꧋ace finish even if Bagnaia won his e✃leventh grand prix of the year.

But that’ꦆs easier sai🐼d than done, especially when all three rear tyre options were viable for the 24-lap showdown.

“Today the co♚nditions were difficult, so the tyre choice wasn't easy. There were some riders on hard🌄s, some softs, some mediums. So I was really scared.

“I was looking at the opponents and I was like, ‘wow, they're all good’, I mean, 📖it's really easy to be tenth if they do a good race. All the top ten had the potential to do well.”

While Bagnaia and runn✤er-up Marc Marquez went for the soft rear, Martin - who had pr🐎eviously indicated he would copy Bagnaia - stuck to his guns and ran the medium.

“I was scared, but finally I thought that the medium was the most conservative tyre choice,” he said. “It wasn't easy, maybe the soft was a bit more competꦑitive, but I did it.

“I just trusted in myself. I had a lot of confidence in myself that even with the ‘worst’ tyre I could b🃏e in the top nine and I was really focused.

“Today I enjoyedꦉ the race, I was touching the elbow, touching the shoulder like if I was training in supermoto, just training with a MotoGP! I'm 𝄹so, so happy that I enjoyed the moment.”

But there were still plenty of emotions as he near꧃ed the biggest moment of his 𒆙career.

“I think even if it was a normal race, like in May here, I woul💮d finish third because Marc and Pecco were stronger. I did my bไest. But for sure the last 7 laps were a bit more difficult.

“I started to remember a lot 💝of moments. I think all my career was coming through my mind.  🎀;I remember my Dad, all the weekends after work training, my Mum cooking when I was racing in pocket bikes. My Grandfather that is not here and he's watching from the sky.

“But then I was refocusing a lot, trying to be in the moment:  ‘Jorge, you need to finish the job. Nothing is done until y꧟ou cross the finish line’. Already on the last lap I felt I was starting to cry, it was so emotional.”

Such euphoria was in stark contrast to the beginning of this ye🐻ar.

Martin: “I was struggling with my mental health"

“I was rea🎐lly struggling with my mental health,” said the 26-year-old, who came up short against Bagnaia in last year’s season finale.

“Last season was great. Even afte🎃r finishing second, I was quite happy. Bu♚t in January I started to have a lot of fears, I was really scared. Like ‘I will never be champion in MotoGP’.

“So thanks to my coach I improved a lot. I wa💯s more focused on the hope of winning, than tꩲhe fear of losing.

“If I lose, it’s O༒K, I'm not dying. Life is not ending.

“But I was with a lot of hope of winning. Not only for me, but for my team, for my people, for my family. So th🐲is helped me a lot.”

Martin now has Sunday to celebrate before preparatio🐼ns begin for the start of his new era as a factory Aprilia rider, with a debut at the same Barcelona circuit on Tuesday.

“I think whatever comes in my future, it will be a present [after this]🐠,” Martin said. “For sure, I will try to be my best version. I ❀will try to win with Aprilia, but I will enjoy now in this moment.”