The 2024 MotoGP world champion, Jorge Martin, has lifted the veil on the doubts that have hovered over his season. As the Spanish rider prepares to leave the Ducati fold to join Aprilia in 2025, he wanted to thank the Italian brand for its unfailing support. Indeed, throughout its victorious season, questions persisted about Ducati's desire to see a rider from a satellite team win the world title, facing a factory rider with the same equipment.
While Jorge Martin preparing to join the factory team Aprilia in 2025, the new MotoGP world champion wanted to clarify a question that has long fueled speculation: the factory
Ducati did she try to slow down her race towards the title against her factory driver Pecco Bagnaia
?
Martinwho won the 2024 MotoGP world championship under the colors of Pramac Racingrecognized that there were doubts about the attitude that
Ducati would adopt in the face of such an internal duel. The fact that a driver from a satellite team could challenge and surpass an official driver with the same equipment raised legitimate questions.
« Of course I was afraid, Paolo Campinoti was afraid, everyone was afraid, the media were afraid because everyone thought that at Ducati, They were going to do something to make me lose the championship », confided
Martin with frankness.
Jorge Martin : «
they didn't do it and that's why I take my hat off to Ducati »
However, these fears never came to fruition. Despite the pressures and the strategic importance of seeing a factory driver triumph, Ducati maintained a position of total impartiality, allowing Martin to give battle to Bagnaia until the last race.
« They didn't and that's why I take my hat off to Ducati. I am very grateful to them
because they brought me to MotoGP and made me world champion, and it's incredible “, declared the Spanish pilot with emotion.
When leaving
Ducati on this positive note, Jorge
Martin now turns its gaze towards a new challenge at
Apriliaready to defend his status as MotoGP world champion in the face of ever fiercer competition.
