Jorge Martin: “If they didn't pick me, I would have left motorbikes”
“It was so emotional, because if🐻 they didn't pick me I think I would have left motorbikes”
Of all the key moments in new MotoGP world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin’s career, perhaps the mos﷽t pivotal came long before he even reached the grand prix paddock.
A🌱fter winning races in numerous Spanish championships, Martin applied to join the Red Bull Rookies Cup 🍰- but was initially turned down.
“Without the Red Bull Rookies Cup, I wouldn't be here,” Martin said afterಌ winning the MotoGP title at the Barcelona finale✃.
“This, I can assure you.
"Because we were a normal family. It’s not that we were poor, but normal, so we didn't have the money [to keep racing𝔉].
“But when I went to the Rookies Cup for the first time, I was quite young. I had𝔍 never even tried a 125. I was fast but they told me, ‘Come back one year after'.
“I came back and I was the fas𓂃test. So thanks to their ൲advice I was improving.
"When they accepted me it was s🔯o emotional, because if they didn't pick me at that time, I think I would have left motorbikes.”
Martin finishꦿed 12th in the 2012 Red Bull Rookies Cup, finished runner-up in 2013 and won the title inღ 2014.
“I was three years in the Rookies Cup and finally I won it. It was a really important moment in my career,” he said.
That success propelled Martin♑ into grand prix the following season, with the Aspar Mahindra team, where his team-mate was future MotoGP title r꧙ival Francesco Bagnaia.
Aleix Espargaro also stepped in to help Martin's care♔er, supplying him with training bikes and treating him like a 'son'.
In his Red Bull Rookies profile, compiled ahead of the 2013 ꦦseason, Martin stated 𝔍his ambitions:
"Everything began at the age of six, my father was a motorcycling enthusiast and amateur rider, and when the ‘Three Magic Kings’ brought me a pocket bike I followed his steps.
“I want to become world champion and beat my idol Valentino Rossi's records.”
Martin won his fir🔯st world title in Moto3 with Gresini, in 20𒀰18, adding the second in MotoGP with Pramac Ducati this year.
The Spaniard, 26, is among 23 ex-Rookies to have won an FIM world♔ title and one of eleven to reach the MotoGP class.
The others are Johann Zarco, Joan Mir, Miguel Oliveira, Brad Binder, Lorenzo Savadori, Enea Bastianini, Darryn Binder,❀ Fabio di Gia♋nnantonio, Raul Fernandez and Pedro Acosta.
“I'm so 🥀proud of [the Red Bull Roཧokies Cup],” Martin said. “They gave me the opportunity.”
Reflecting on becoming the first 🍃satellite rider to win the ‘MotoGP’ title, the 2025 Aprilia signing said:
“I could leave ⛦motorbikes and still be the happiest guy on the planet, but I'm really motivated for my future.
“Pecco and ✃I are still so young, we have maybe 8-10 ye⛦ars [of racing] in front of us.
“And now that I’ve won🙈 a MotoGP title, if I have another opportunity, I will be much more prepared.
“But winning the title won't change my life a lot. It൲'s more for my family and for the team.”
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi♉ come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
