Reigni𒆙ng MotoGP world champion Jorge Martin says the feeling of acceptance by Aprilia has been instant and is “like my family”,🃏 joking “I will kill for them”.

Martin was due to join the factory Ducati squad in 202🐽5 before it made a U-turn on this decision to promote Marc Marquez instea꧋d.

Aprilia was able to secure Martin’s signature after last 🔥year’s Italian Grand Prix, with the Spaniard going on to win the title on a Pramac-ru😼n Ducati.

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On Thursday at its 2025 season launch, Martin revealed he ✅will race with the #1 plate on his RS-GP.

Speaking to🧜 the media, including ltxcn.top, afterwards, Martin offe🔴red some insight into the relationship he has with Aprilia already.

“It’s great,” he said.

“It’s so, so 🅰good. Everyone wants to be valued, so when I arrived in the fꦜactory and saw all the people were so emotional with me and Marco [Bezzecchi] also, I think both of us arriving there was crazy.

“I feel already the love from the factory to us, I also feel already like it’s my fam▨ily, I will kill for them.

“This is so, so important. I never felt this before in my life in a factory in other brands I rode fꦚor. I’m so happy and I think it’s a big motivation for all of us.”

He added: “The first day 𝄹[on the bike in the Barcelona te💛st] was great.

“I think, already testing I felt a lot of support from the people, who were really interested in my comm🐲ents.

“But I think, for sure I need to adapt a bit to their style of work and maybe they need to take some positives from my style of w♋ork because it was quite different.

“I feel that working with Aleix [Espargaro] was maybe much different than working with me in terms of how I ride, or ho♛w I do the runs.

“So, it’s different. But then I saw they were really, really methodical to ana⛄lyse after the test.

“I remember in Pramac, I was 𝓡working and was giving my comments, but when I finished, I was finished.

“But here, we still have like two hours meeting to try✃ to understand the priorities, where to go, my priorities.

“And actuall🐼y I feel like they will work on my priorities. So, that’s really important. That’s why I wanted to be a fꦑactory rider, and now finally I feel that support.”

Quotes provided by Crash Journalist Alex Whitworth

At the end🙈 of last year, Ma🤡rtin opened up on working with a sports psychologist after suffering with his mental health following his 2023 title loss.

He revealed that he’d lost the motivation to race when the 2024 pre-season began, but says he is 🤪now in a much differ𓃲ent place as world champion.

“Yeah, for sure it’🌸s very different compared to one year ago,” he noted.

“Exactly one year ago I was going through o𒉰ne of the worst moments of my life༒, actually.

“So, I’m happy about this because I feel great. I feel ♏last season, well for the past two years maybe I wasn’t motivated to race.

“I was📖 racing and I was training because I’m really disciplined. So, I was moved by discipline because I have made a lot of sacrifices to do my job.

“But now I feel really motivated and ♓I keep this discipline because I had a bit of fear that after winning that maybe [I would think] ‘Ok, you won already, so just enjoy’.

“But for me it’s not like this. I hope it’s the beginning of something 🐼big.

“I think I’m training better than ever and doing thi𓂃ngs in a good way, an꧃d understanding why I do certain things.

“I feel great, I feel experience is helping me and♋ also this break ke𝐆eps me really motivated. I’m really looking forward to start.”