«Being MotoGP world champion would be the fulfillment of my life. We are a clear example that dreams come true. There is only one left…” Jorge Martín explained at the end of last year in a documentary that covered his career. That dream that remained has just been fulfilled in Barcelona, where Jorge Martin He has been crowned world champion. He already left the championship on track fifteen days ago after Pecco Bagnaia’s fall in the sprint race and today he consummated it. Years of suffering are left behind. From him and his family, who bet everything on the 89 that the Prima Pramac pilot wears on his helmet and on the fairing of his Ducati satellite, although he pilots a Desmosedici GP24, the black leg, the same one he drives Bagnaia or Bastianini.
The heartfelt hug with his parents, Ángel and Susana; his little brother, Javi; your partner, Maria Monfort; and his agent, Albert Valera, condenses a career at the end of a path that began when he was barely two years old, when, without knowing how to speak, he preferred the stories from the magazine ‘Solo Moto’ that his father stacked up at home and read to him at night before than children’s stories. Martín has fulfilled his dream and that of all his people, a family of workers who have sacrificed themselves so that Jorge could dedicate himself to motorcycles, inheriting the passion of his parents who, before having children, enjoyed touring the circuits. «Jorge is a hangover from Jerez 1997»they joke at home. In that May race, the third of the World Cup, Crivillé, the idol of the Martín-Almoguera family, won in the stands, who displayed a Spanish flag with a bull in the center. The same flag that Martinator waves when he wins a race.
Martín has touched the sky, but his beginnings were not idyllic. From your home, adjacent to the Jarama circuityou could hear the roar of the engines and there little Jorge dreamed of racing when he was a child. “Mom, heavenly music,” he cried every weekend when there were races. «I never considered being a pilot when I was little. I was just thinking about having fun. As a child you don’t realize anything and I wasn’t aware of the effort my family was making,” Jorge remembers in his documentary. And motorcycling is an expensive sport. «We have all sacrificed a lot for this. Everything we earned went to the motorcycles. We forget about vacations so we can pay for the tires», explains Susana, the pilot’s mother. There were some times when only the boy’s victories could pay the expenses he generated, especially when both parents were unemployed. Martín does not forget it: «A budget was needed and my family did not have resources. With the crisis came bad times and they had to work hard. My friends were going on vacation and I was staying home. “My parents gave everything for me to get here.” «The shopping basket became pork-chicken-macaroni and we stop doing many things», recalls Susana, who even sold bracelets to pay for her son’s tires. «Each race cost us 1,700 euros»recalls Ángel, who explains that “a team called us to compete in the Spanish championship, but they asked us for 200,000 euros and we neither had it nor could we get into debt.”
More screws than bones in the body
KTM decided to bet on his talent when he won the Rookies Cup in 2014 and made a place for him in Moto3. There he caught the attention of Albert Valera, representative of Jorge Lorenzo and Aleix Espargaró, and was able to place him on the team. Jorge Martínez Asparwhere curiously he coincided for two years with Pecco Bagnaia. He forged a good friendship with his current rival, with whom he shared a bunk and indulged in video games. «He was very explosive, very nervous. We had to sit him down, but we saw a lot of potential in him,” remembers Jorge Martínez Aspar. In 2018 he won the World Championship in Moto3 and he wore the flag of the bull, the one that his parents waved the night they gave birth to him. But his triumphs were accompanied by continuous injuries. Every time he fell he broke a bone, or several, which led to studies being carried out on the fragility of his skeleton. «He has more screws and plates in his body than bones. That’s why the nickname of Martinator“half man and half robot,” reveals Javi, his little brother, who, proud of his brother’s career, regrets that “I see little of him, he is my role model and I would like to spend more time with him.” Especially hard was the incident he suffered in Portimao in 2021during free practice and which is the third hardest fall in the history of MotoGP after that of Marc Márquez in Sepang 2019 and that of Loris Baz, also in Malaysia, in 2016. According to data collected by Alpinestars, the brand in charge of When making his jumpsuit, Martín endured 26 G of force in his fall, with several impacts that exceeded 20 G. In the accident, the man from Madrid suffered severe head trauma, fractured eight bones and had to undergo three simultaneous operations.
Last year Martín was on the verge of winning the championship. Overconfidence in Indonesia and a strategy error with the choice of tires in Australia prevented his final victory after cutting 66 points from Bagnaia, who ended up winning the World Cup. This year has been different. Surely the influence of his partner, María Monfort, has given him the level of maturity and serenity he needed. His great performance in Aragón in September (second in the sprint and in the race on Sunday) seasoned with Bagnaia’s ninth position in the sprint and his fall the next day, allowed the Madrid native to rise to a leadership that not only did he not abandon, but was consolidating in the following seven Grands Prix (San Marino, Misano, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, Thailand and Malaysia) until winning the World Cup in Barcelona this weekend. Title that he celebrated by taking a lap of honor dressed as the Terminator…
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