That’s not because he doesn’t intend 𓆏on winning the 2023 MotoGP championship, which he does, but it’s because of his status within Ducati.

The Pramac rider is on full-factory machinery, meaning he rid💯es the same bike as🌟 Francesco Bagnaia.

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But with no satellite team riꦍder having won a title in the MotoGP era, Martin says he’s without pressure to do so because he does not ride for the factory Ducati team.

"My target 💖is to win races," began M🅠artin. "I’m not even a factory rider so it’s not on me to win the championship. I don’t have responsibility. 

"For sure, if I have the chance, as I am having now, then I wi♑ll try and go for it. My day will come when I’m a factory rider. But today I am not. But it is not on me."

Martin was then pushed further about his comments during the post-race press conference, ꦜafter being asked why he felt that way. 

"For sure it is up to me to win a championship and it is my dream also," added the Spaniဣard. "I just said that I don’t have the responsibility as a non-factory rider to do it. 

"But if I can do it I will take🔴 it. I’m not obsessed about that. I feel like my day will come a▨nd hopefully soon I am a factory rider."

Sitting nඣext to his main title rival after securing a heroic double podium at his home round, Bagnaia gave his thoughts on Martin’s statements.

Bagnaia said: "It’s normal. He is a rider and his mentality is to win. He demonstrated something incredible this weeken♔d that just some riders can do. 

"Doing a race weekend like t🌄his is just for the ones that want to win a championship. I think it is up to anyone to win a championship. 

"It’s up to you to push, to work hard and if anybody points the finger at you🍸 and says you have to win, they don’t win. It’s up ✃to us I think."

Like in the sprint race, Bagnaia held off Dani Pedrosa who was mesmerisin✨g in his second wild card of🌳 the season. 

Afraid that he could be overtaken by the Spaniard late on as the gap was as little as two🔯 tenths, Bagnaia said: "It was important to be on the podium for me. Dani was pushing a lot and when I saw with six laps to go꧑ that he was 0.2s [behind] I said, ‘no, f**k!’ I was for two or three laps in the 32.7s and I was struggling a lot. 

"But I just pushed like hell to be at the front in the last laps. The pace this year was incredibl🎶e."