Jorge Martín and Pramac Racing will part ways after this season as the rider is looking to rider for a factory team and for Neil Hodgson this wish from the spaniard comes with two conditions: the prestige of being a factory rider, of course, and a several increase on his salary.
‘All he needs is the factory bike. He wants to be respected with a factory contract, and paid like a factory rider. He wants to be respected with a factory contract, and paid like a factory rider’, Hodgson said about Martín on TNT Sports.
For the british this promotion has its value of course on the point of view of the rider and respect of being on a factory, but also will mean, in this case, a salary increase of about four times: ‘If he signs a factory contract to be in the factory team, his salary will be four times what he’s being paid this year. So that’s what he wants’.
For Hodgson the #89, current leader of the championship has it all as a rider: ‘He’s an immaculate sort of rider, the full package. He can win from the front, he’s an aggressive rider, he can do a fast lap time on his own, when needed. He doesn’t need to follow people’.