After today’s win in Buriram, Jorge Martin has taken nine points back from Pecco Bagnaia in the championship standings and revealed that in his position, as a pursuer, it’s important to take risks, something he doesn’t shy away from doing. For the spaniard it’s important to stay calm in tomorrow’s race, but in that ‘calm’… to be faster than the others.
The #89 analysed his performance and explained that with a view to his position in the championship he has to take certain risks: ‘Of course, recovering points is always very good and I’m in a position where I have to take risks and today that’s exactly what I did: when Brad [Binder] was second I had to push a little harder and maybe I could crash or not, but I tried to stay on track and safe’.
Second in the championship, today Martin had a sprint start opposed by Luca Marini, but in the end he got the better of him: ‘The start was tough and I think Luca wanted to attack to get the first position but he braked a little early and I managed to get a good first corner and then I could focus on trying to make the biggest advantage’.
He then went on to talk about strategy: ‘When you try to push from the start you use half the tyre straight away, so for the first few laps I’ll keep calm, but they all have to keep calm too and maybe my calm will be quicker than theirs. I hope that by being relaxed I can create that difference, but if I can’t I might have to settle for second place, third, we don’t know […]’.
Regarding tyre selection and whether he’ll make his choice based on what Bagnaia will do, Martín replied: ‘I think he’ll go for the hard tyre because today in FP2 he used it and was faster than with the medium, but I think it’s going to be difficult for everyone and we’ll have to make the choice at the Warm Up.