Jorge Martin has credited his three closest MotoGP championship challengers for making him “a greater rider” on his strategy to the 2024 world title.
Martin scored his first premier class title in a championship battle that went all the best way to the wire, with the previous Pramac rider popping out on high by 10 factors.
The Spaniard grew to become the primary unbiased crew rider to win the title within the fashionable period and is Ducati’s third world champion after Francesco Bagnaia and Casey Stoner.
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Within the latter levels of the 2024 season, Martin and Bagnaia emerged because the runaway favourites, with the latter successful 11 grands prix to the eventual world champion’s three throughout the marketing campaign.
At occasions Martin additionally needed to go head-to-head with Gresni’s Marc Marquez and manufacturing facility Ducati rider Enea Bastianini, who accomplished the highest 4 within the standings behind the highest two.
“Pecco Bagnaia , Marc Marquez and Enea Bastianini – all three have made me a greater rider, they’ve made me give my all,” Martin stated.
“When it wasn’t one among them, it was the opposite who may have gained, and I used to be all the time in that struggle and that is what made the distinction.
“It was a really troublesome title to win, we achieved a historic factors document, which already tells you that the competitiveness was very excessive and to have crushed them is unbelievable.”
Martin has additionally stated since successful the world championship that he beat “the very best model” of Bagnaia and Marquez in 2024.
The reigning champion will transfer throughout to Aprilia for his title defence marketing campaign in 2025, after Ducati made a U-turn earlier within the yr on its determination to advertise Martin to its manufacturing facility squad in favour of Marquez.
As but, Martin hasn’t determined publicly if he’ll run the primary plate or not.
Within the post-season Barcelona take a look at final month when Martin made his debut on the RS-GP, he caught together with his conventional 89 plate.
Bastianini has additionally left the Ducati fold for 2025, taking over a proposal from KTM to race for the Tech3 squad alongside former Aprilia rider Maverick Vinales.
