MotoGP🔥 world champion Jorge Martin believes the way Ducati ꧅ultimately snubbed him for a 2025 factory seat “wasn’t really good” but saw “no sense to start a fight” over it.

Martin had been given the nod by Ducati a♏head of the Italian Grand Prix earlier this year to join its factory team in 2025, with the marque expecting Marc Marquez to take a works bike at Pramac.

When Marquez refused this, and faced with the threat of losing him to a rival factory, Ducati made a U-turn on its decision to promote 🍒Martin in favour of the eight-time world♈ champion.

Martin subsequen🐠tly signed a two-year factory deal with Aprilia, while Pram⛎ac eventually penned an agreement with Yamaha for 2025.

Speaking to🐻  after winning the championship for Ducati and Pramac, Martin said of the episode: “I think after what happened we spoke because I had to tell them quite a few things.

“How they managed it🐷 wasn’t really good. There was no sense to start a fight because I will start a fight with the bike that I have, so it made no sense.

“The relationship with Gigi [Dall’Igna] and the technical🌼 staff was the same.

“A🌳lso with [Claudio] Domenicalli, we spoke in Sachsenri🦂ng and I think we were quite clear, I was quite clear with them and they know what I think.

“The first thing I said was ‘Ok, now I can make history as the first independent rider to win a MotoGP championship’. So, I made history and🌜 I will be remembered for that.”

After Martin signed for Aprilia, it was widely thought Ducati would weaken its support for his title bid to stop the numb🐟er one plate potentially being placed on an RS-GP in 2025.

൩While D🌄ucati remained committed to supporting Pramac, Martin admits he and the team were “scared” initially. 

“For sure I was scared, Paolo [Campinotti] wa🅠s scared, everyone was✱ scared, the media was scared,” he added.

“Everybody꧃ w𒉰as thinking they would do something to make me lose this championship.

“But they did🅰n’t, so chapeau to Ducati, hats off, and I’m really grateful to D🐽ucati because they brought me to MotoGP and they made me world champion.”