Jorge Martin: Not just me vs Pecco, “Aleix doing a great job, Enea will arrive”
Jorge Martin declares he’s ready to start the 2024 MotoGP season after set-up breakthrough with new Ducati fair൩ing.
The Qatar MotoGP test began as the Sepang test had ended, with reigning champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia and title runner-up 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin first and second on the timesheets.
Once agai🐻n, the margin between them was a mere 0.2s as both worked to fine-tune the latest partsꦕ for the Desmosedici GP24.
Bagnaia was seen following Martin in the closing stages of Monday’s track time, adding to the impression that this se𒉰as♛on could turn into ‘round two’ of last year’s title duel.
“I knew he was there on the last lap I did [but] I w𓆏as already with a really used tyre,” Martin told MotoGP.com.
“Yeah, he followed me, it's OK. I followed him also one time and I think we are working on the same page, let's say, be🎃cause we are trying to make the new bike work.
“We are not in the same team but we are in the same factory, so we 🌺are working with the same target.”
The five-time MotoGP race🅷 winner also insisted there are a lot of other fast riders ready to fight at the front.
“Also Aleix 🌳is doing a great job, Eneജa will arrive. There are a lot of riders that can do it, so I'll focus on myself, trying to improve and be fast,” he said.
Aprilia’s Esparg🌺aro topped the timesheets on his way to third place (+0.292s) with Bagnaia’s factory team-mate Enea Bastianini also featuring at the sharp end on his way to ඣeighth (+0.549s).
Nonetheless, a 'happy' Martin warned that🌌 he has found a comfortab🐷le set-up for the new Ducati fairing and is ready to start racing.
“I’m happy. Finally, I found a good base I think for the new season,” he said. “I've been struggling a bit with the new fairing to find how to make it work and finally today I feel lik෴e we did a great job.
“I thin🏅k we are ready for the season to start. Hopefully tomorrow we can work a bit more on the setup and try to improve a little bit the pace, but overall I'm quite happy.”
Martin is again joined by Ducati test rider Michele Pirro ꦺwꦜith team-mate Franco Morbidelli still unable to ride due to last month’s superbike training accident.
However, 168澳洲幸运5💫官方开奖结果历史:Morbidelli is pr🦹esent as a spectator in Qatar.
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