Jorge Martín finished the first day at the Losail circuit in 7th position. The Spanish rider was ahead of his rival, Francesco Bagnaia, who finished in 8th position.
The Prima Pramac Racing rider had some difficulties at the start of the second practice session and spoke about what happened during the first day in Qatar.
– ‘ It was a difficult day. As you can see I had some difficulties, I don’t know why, but it was probably the tires because in every corner I was almost crashing. I tried to stay calm, it wasn’t easy, but luckily we’re in Q2 and I’m happy. I was 1 or 2 seconds off first, so something wasn’t right. It was very difficult psychologically to recover from the difficulties, I had no ideal trajectory, no references, so it was very difficult in two laps to understand the limits and do a fast lap. I think what happened gave me the confidence to do better and do a fast lap.
Asked about the problems he had with his tires and what he went through in this most complicated stage of practice, Jorge replied: ‘At one point I said I didn’t want to go back on the track, because it was pointless, I was going to fall and hurt myself for sure. There was a time when I used the hard tire on the front and it worked better than the medium one, I think the information from Ducati helped me a lot today and we’ll see what we can use for tomorrow’s Sprint race’.