Jorge Martín, the king without a throne – Tear it down, for God’s sake!

2023-11-26 17:02:16

There were options. The feat was possible, but in the end the balance fell on the part of the current champion, Pecco Bagnaia, from the official team, Ducati. An error in braking at the end of the straight, possibly caused by the aspiration of Baganaia’s motorcycle, forced Jorge Martin to come back and risk. An excessive risk that ended in the pozzolona and in the box before its time.

Now we will always have the doubt of if Martín had not come across a defective tire in Losail last Sundaythings would have been different.

It is a disappointment that elements unrelated to piloting and fighting end up deciding such an even World Cup. It seemed like a dream that a satellite team would win the World Cup against the great Ducati, the Ducati mother. The red team was beginning to get angry at seeing a satellite do things better, and, above all, seeing how the driver they rejected for their box, Jorge Martín, was going to beat his current champion. Ducati couldn’t afford it.

In any case, bravo for Martín’s season which, although it has had some shadows, when he lost the lead after crashing in Indonesia, has been, without a doubt, the fastest, the most aggressive and has earned the respect of the entire grid.

Martinator has been close to achieving something that so far only Valentino Rossi has achievedand it is to win the World Cup with a motorcycle from a satellite team. The doctor He did it in 2001 with Nastro Azzurro’s Honda NSR500cc, but since then no one has done it again.

If Jorge Martín must be congratulated, we should not detract from the work of Pecco Baganaia, who has managed to overcome the enormous pressure. And not only Jorge’s, but those of the rest of the Ducati that have tried from the beginning to dethrone him as current champion. In the end he has kept a cool head and fine driving to once again be crowned the best driver in the premier class.

The best thing is that there has been a fight until the end, that the emotion has lasted until the last race and that is a gift for the sport and for the fans. Next year, in what we could already call the Ducati Cup —instead of MotoGP—, there will be one more player, Marc Márquez, who this Sunday was unable to finish his last race with Hondaafter the accident with Martín and will get on his new motorcycle, the Ducati, next Tuesday.