After coming close to the title this season, Jorge Martín is already looking forward to the 2024 season and does not shy away from responsibility, following his runner-up finish and having been the Moto3 World Champion in 2018.
“In 2024, I see myself as a champion. But that requires many things to come together. It will be an interesting year, the level is high and continues to grow. But I will always push and try to be better than I was the day before,” said the 25-year-old rider confidently in an interview with the program “O Formigueiro.”
Recapping the current season, Martín says it was a learning experience. “It was a big step compared to the previous year. Before, I fell a lot, and that cost many surgeries, this year I was more consistent. But there is something that hurts me a lot, which was what happened in the race in Indonesia. I was leading by more than three seconds, and if I had won, almost certainly with that result, I would have won the MotoGP World Championship. The fact of feeling so superior, wanting to humiliate, so to speak, made me fail. It was a learning experience for the future. You can win by two-tenths or by a second, but the points are the same,” he acknowledged.
“In Qatar, I got a defective tire, I won on Saturday and thought I would repeat the feat on Sunday to get even closer to Pecco. But I ended up in tenth, suffering. I kept losing positions, lap after lap, there, I had to cheer up my team. They were all very sad because of that result,” he concluded.