Jorge Martin: “I didn’t want to go back to MotoGP” after title heartbreak
“I h♛ad a lot ꦜof fears. I didn’t know if I was able to be as fast"

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin has described his much-changed psyche since losing out on the MotoGP championship.
The Pramac Ducati♒ rider has a 10-point advantage at the top of the standings heading into this weekend’s Australian MotoGP.
R🅺eigning champion Pecco Bag🌠naia, Enea Bastianini and Marc Marquez trail him.
Martin is desperate not to lose out on the title, as he did last season at the fi🐬nal round.
“In February after the break, when we started again, I didn’t want to go back to the MotoGP bike,” Mꦰartin admitted.
“I had a lot of 🐲fears. I didn’tꩵ know if I was able to be as fast as before.
“Then I jumped on the bike. I understood it 🍨was the same. I was fast again, I could fight again.
“My target now is to fight and to give 100%.”
It has been a title fight with multiple err🐽ors between Martin and Bagnaia.
But with four rounds remaining Martin insists he is 🍨the best rider in the class.
“I am strong🀅er. I am a bit better in almost every area,” he cl𝓡aimed.
“I don’t feel that I’✅m faster. Maybe last year I was faster, I had more speed than the rest.
“At this point, we are close with P𝐆ecco, Enea and Marc. We are similar.
“But I am stronger because there are e🎃ither points where I am a🍨 bit better.”
This is why Martin has improved
Mar♌tin revealed his key to improving since last ye🐟ar: “We improved a lot on the mental side.
“Last season was difficult, I couldn’t manage the pressure. I struggled a lot to handle it, I didn’t know how to do it. I would go to sleep in r🥂aces.
“I said, okay I need help to approac𒐪h the weekends and🃏 the pressure. I said okay, I need to do it.
“This year I started to work on my mental side, to have the ꦐtools to manage the situation.
“To understand how to appro🐈ach the weekends, and how to approach af🔯ter a bad result also.
“This was the key to this season.
“To be more present was important. I was thinking too much, last season. Trജying to imagine what could happen. But thiജs is not the way.
“Last season I was too obsessed wit💟h the ♔result, trying to win, win, win…
“Maybe this is not the way that helps me.
“Now I try to focus more on myself, I try to learn from ever🍌y situation.
“It’s not al༺l about wins. If I can win, p𝔉erfect. If not, it’s okay, I can live with that. It was the main lesson I got from last season.
“This season, I sleep perfe🦹ctly! We did a🥂 good job!”
Martin believes he ܫwill cope with th꧃e tension of the next four rounds.
“There is preജssure but I am okay with it,” he said.
“Pressure is a privilege. Not everyone has it.ಞ We are in front, battling for🤡 big things.
“When you are behind, it’s easier because you ꦕjust have to push. When you are in front, it’s more difficult because you have to think more.
“My stra𒉰tegy this year - eve♎n if I am in front, think like I am behind. Push, push, push…
“Give 100% and don’t think aღbout the rest, or what I cannot control.”
Martin said about becoming champion: “It’s a big d🌠ream, it would mean a lot.
“I know I can win. It’s 50-50.
“If I don’t win it, I will try again next season.
“I will fight for the💯 possibility to decide if I have the #1.”

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