Advantage more than halved
Jorge Martin he showed up at Mugello with a 39 point lead over Francesco Bagnaia and left the Tuscan ups and downs with an 18 point margin over Bagnaia. The Pramac rider has two regrets, having crashed in the Sprint – seven points lost – and having succumbed to Bastianini in the race at the last corner (4 points left on the table).
The positive side of the weekend is that it was competitive in the race, where he was much faster than he managed a year ago. The duel with Francesco Bagnaia will resume at the end of the month at Assen in the Netherlands and Martin hopes to show up on the track confident of promotion to the official Ducati team starting from 2025.
“Mugello was a difficult weekend off the track – admitted Jorge Martin to the microphones of DAZN – but we managed to deal with it well. I hope to arrive at Assen with a clear head after having put a signature on a piece of paper“. A wish from Martin who should be welcomed by Ducati given that on the eve of Mugello it seemed that everything was set for the signature in the days immediately following the race weekend. What can be changed? Marc Marquez’s no to moving to Pramac, but in order not to lose either Martin, Marquez or the Pramac team, CEO Claudio Domenicali declared that Ducati is considering the possibility of fielding 5 GP25s next season, a scenario each way defined as “complicated” by Domenicali.
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