Reigning MotoGP world champion Jorge Martin says his “obsession꧙” for his first season with Aprilia is “to be my best version” rather than focus purely on results.

Martin brings the #1 plate with him to Aprilia after winning the championship for Ducati, who last year made a U-turn on its plans to pro✃m🍌ote him to its factory team.

The world champion has one day of running on the RS-GP under his belt last November at Barcelona, and will continue his adaptation to the bike this week at the Sepan𓆉g pre-season test.

As world champion and a factory teaꦏm rider for the first time, expectations are high on Martin for the season ahead - though he doesn’t see it this way.

“I don’t feel pressure at the moment,” he said.

“I mean, the pressure that we want is to make good results. But I think I will keep꧙ my mentality from last seasღon.

“I wasn’t fꦑocused on winning. I was focused on being be🌟tter every day, being my best version.

“This is my obses🌊sion, to be my best version and when it comes, it comes."

Jorge Martin feels responsibility at Aprilia

“I am tryin꧒g to put these thoughts on the people, because when I arrived all the people🐼 were like ‘we have to win, we have to win’," he said.

“But we don’t have to win. We have to do our best and then we will see our potenti⭕al. The potential is hig💙h, but we will see where we are.”

He added: “I think tha𒅌t the pressure I went through last season won’t be as much any time in my life.

“I don’t fee♌l pressure, I feel responsibility. It’s responsibility, not pressure.

“The pressure you have when you are fighting for a championship, you have the pressure at its highesಞt - and what I’ve been through in the last years, and last year, waꦆs crazy.

“So,♛ now I feel🌞 really relaxed, really like I want to perform.

“I took off a big weight from my back a💎nd now I’m just focused on doing my best, and for su🐠re having the responsibility of having the whole factory behind us.”

Martin says building up the “family” relationship he had at Pramac is taking some time at Aprilia given how n🔯ew he is to the project, but feels he already has a stronger relationship with management then he did 💖at Ducati.

“I feel 🤡we are for sure still not the family like Pramac,” he said.

“It’s quite difficult to arrive after four years together with the same team♏, same organisation.

“But I bring some people from Pramac. I knew some people from Aprilia from Aleix [Espargaro], so I feel like the group is getting really good toget🎐her.

“It’s also a big family, with the bosses I fe🎐el I have a re🌄lationship with them where before I didn’t with any of them.

“So, now I feel I am really on the projꦫect and I can help a lot. I feel a lot that when you enter into the box you breathe good air. So, this is really, reallꦅy good.” 

Quotes provided by Crash MotoGP Editor Peter McLaren