Ducati “now regretting” not signing me for 2025 MotoGP seat

Jorge Martin believes Ducati have to be regretting passing him over for a manufacturing unit MotoGP seat after his overcome Francesco Bagnaia within the 2024 title battle.

Martin was denied a promotion to Ducati’s official staff for 2025 after 4 years at its satellite tv for pc Pramac squad, with the Borgo Panigale marque as a substitute choosing the star energy of six-time premier class champion Marc Marquez.

Ducati initially needed to provide a shot to Martin following his spectacular velocity in earlier years, however was compelled to take a U-turn over Marquez’s refusal to hitch Pramac on a manufacturing unit bike.

The choice was made comparatively early within the season on the Italian Grand Prix in June, when Martin was nonetheless locked in a decent battle with Bagnaia within the championship.

Given how the occasions of 2024 performed out, with the Spaniard profitable the riders’ title on a satellite tv for pc bike and beating Ducati’s personal favorite Bagnaia, the 26-year-old thinks the Italian producer now needs it might have made a unique selection with regard to its 2025 line-up.

“When all this was determined, I wasn’t a champion. It is tough to foretell these items, but it surely’s clear that proper now they’re in all probability regretting it,” he mentioned.

“However you need to ask them that. Ultimately, I look out for myself, life takes you to locations you do not anticipate.”

Whereas Ducati had good purpose to place all its weight behind Bagnaia in his bid for a 3rd consecutive title, it made positive that Martin had the identical tools at his disposal at Pramac.

By means of a sequence of constant performances, he was in a position to declare his first title in any class since his Moto3 success in 2018, regardless of profitable simply three grands prix and 7 dash races all yr.

Whereas admitting that Bagnaia had the benefit of being a part of a better-funded manufacturing unit staff versus a satellite tv for pc construction, Martin hailed Ducati for protecting the battle truthful between the pair in 2024.

“My tools was the identical as Pecco’s, I can not deny that,” he mentioned. “However the therapy on the manufacturing unit is totally totally different. 

“When you find yourself at an official [team], you have got everybody working for you, attempting to make you the winner. I really feel like there have been twelve individuals on my staff towards two or 300. That made it tougher.

“However I thank Ducati for not doing something towards us. No person anticipated it, everybody anticipated one thing unusual to occur in the previous couple of races, however they’ve been very noble and that’s admirable.”

Jorge Martin, Pramac Racing

Photograph by: Dorna

A transparent hierarchy was seen inside Ducati in 2024, with Martin and Bagnaia comfortably forward of the remainder of the pack for many of the season. Solely once in a while have been Enea Bastianini on the manufacturing unit bike and Marquez on Gresini’s GP23 in a position to upset the established order, profitable 5 out of 20 grands prix between them.

Martin mentioned racing towards the trio in 2024 helped him elevate his sport in MotoGP and obtain his dream of profitable the championship.

“Pecco Bagnaia, Marc Marquez and Enea Bastianini, all three have made me a greater rider, they’ve made me give my all,” he mentioned.

“After I wasn’t certainly one of them, it was the opposite who may have received, and I used to be all the time in that battle and that is what made the distinction. 

“It was a really tough title to win, we achieved a historic factors file, which already tells you that the competitiveness was very excessive and having overwhelmed them is unbelievable.”

Martin will change to Aprilia in 2025 as a part of an all-new line-up that additionally contains one other Ducati exile in Marco Bezzecchi.