Jorge Martin replies to Pecco Bagnaia: “Easy to speak when everything went good…”
Jorge Martin responds to title꧃ rival's claims about his sprint race crash

Jorge Martin had his say on Pecco Bagnaia’s analysis of his Mandalika sprint race 🍎crash.
The Pramac Ducati riཧder claimed pole position in qualfiying but then shockingly crashed in the early stages of the Saturday race at the Indonesian MotoGP.
He remounted and finished 10th but Bagnaia won the race, reduci🍎ng the defi🐬cit to 12 points behind Martin in the MotoGP standings.
“The first lap I tried to follow Jorge, and I said ‘if he closes the line, I will take four seconds, 🔥because he is entering too fast’,” Bagnaia said.
“When I saw it, I ♔followed. As soon as he entered, he lost the front.
“The asphalt was 63 degrees. It was not easy.
“I was thinking that he entered very, very strong. If we clos💯e it, we have to follow.
“But he crashed. It was tricky. I loܫst the fꦦront during the race twice.”
Martin responded: “It’s really easy🍬 for Pecco to say that I was too fast!
💖“I hope to be fast tomorrow and to win by four seconds.
“The plan is to do my b♏est. I have tꩵhe potential to do it.
“But it’s really easy to speak 🎃when e💝verything went good…”
Martin insisted he 💧doesn’t know an obvious cause of his crash: “Not yet. A rollercoaster sea▨son…
“I tried to look into it, but I feel that 𝄹I did nothing wrong. I just🅘 crashed.
2I want to tඣake the positives. I was consistent with clean space, and was able to overtake a ♐lot of riders from last.2
Bagnaia said: “I w✨as trying to give it my all in the first three sec⛎tors. I am not the strongest in sector four.
“I opened the gap to control from the front.”
Bagnaia will swap fro🅷m soft to medium tyres for Sunday’s grand prix.
He hasn’𒁏t previously gotten on well with the mediums in Mandalika.
But B🍷agnaia hopes he can change his fortunes: “With the things, we learned, I think so. It’s too soon to say…”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football♔, to F1.