Jorge Martín led the race at the MotoGP British GP but ended up making a mistake while trying to keep Enea Bastianini (Ducati) behind him in the final laps, running wide at Turn 3 on the penultimate lap.
The Prima Pramac rider said in a press conference that, throughout the Silverstone round, he experienced some lack of confidence with the front of the bike, despite improvements during the race:
– I didn’t feel a good confidence with the front during all the weekend, I struggled quite a lot. I think on Sunday we did a small step; I think we are still finding our base set-up, let’s say. I don’t know why, we always change a little bit from Saturday to Sunday, and in the race was a bit better. But I didn’t feel at 100% and I was moving a little bit.
According to Martín, the biggest difficulties arose while leading, admitting that the outcome against Bastianini would likely have been the same with or without the mistake: ‘Actually behind Pecco [Bagnaia] I felt good, but when I was in front I struggle a little bit to stop the bike. When I saw Enea was close, I was pushing a lot to try to keep him behind and I did this mistake. I think the result would be the same, but maybe a bit later’.