Jorge Martin reveals new reason for pitlane decision after “what the f***” shock
Newly released footage provides a new perspective

Unseen footage has revealed a fresh reason for Jorge Martin’s disastrous decisi꧋on to go into the pits at lಌast weekend’s San Marino MotoGP.
Martin was the 📖first rider to react to raindrops falling by pulling into the pitlane for a change of tyres.
The move backfired as the track immediately dried up, leaving Martin languishing in 15th while🐎 title rivals Marc Marquez (who won) and Pecco Bagnaia (runner-up) gained ground in the championship standings.
Martin was consoled in his garage afterwards: “That’s just how iꦿt goes, man…”
He res🥀ponded: “After that, I couldn’t, I ha🍬d to wait. I couldn’t pass anyone unless they sent me out.
“Then with Vinales behind, I stopped. B🅺ut afterwards I 🐼was fast.
It’s one point. F***!
“I could do laps in the low 1:35s easily.”
Newly release♛d footage showed Martin and B🃏agnaia’s candid chat shortly after the race ended.
“Pecco, man… for f*** sake,” s🌸aid an almost speechless Martin.
Bagnaia replied: “I saw you go in and tꦑhought ‘what the f*** is he doing!💞’”
Martin revealed that he expected Bagnaia to pit first. He said: “It was rainin🗹g, raining a lot. I thought ‘he stuck his leg out, so he will stop…’”
Bagnaia explained: “Because I wanted to touch.”
Martin: “But then ꦫI cꦉame out and it wasn’t raining anymore. No!”
Bagnaia: “The weather can change in a second.”
M🎉ore new footage showed Bagnaia privately talking to his engineers while Marquez partied in the back𝕴ground.
Bagnaia was told: “F***, ifꩲ you came into the pitlane we would have been f*****!”
♔The MotoGP champion replied: “It’s lucky ✨we didn’t.”
Bagnaia was asked: “Did you think about it?”
He said: “It didn’t smell like rain.”

James was a sports journalist at Sk💝y Sports for a🤡 decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.