Jorge Martin reveals new reason for pitlane decision after “what the f***” shock

Newly released footage provides a new perspective

Jorge Martin
Jorge Martin

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.”

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