"Why do I have to be angry at him?"
MotoGP title battles in recent years have come to be characterised by their general courteous demeanour.
“I mean, overall, with everything that happened during the weekend I have to be happy,” said Martin. “But anyway I am frustrated because I feel we are super strong, that nothing is missing to win races but still Pecco is doing that result. Bagnaia lapped his factory team Ducati in the 1m29s bracket consecutively from lap two to 14, and again one more time on lap 16, while Martin did so from lap three to 12 before dipping into the 1m30s. On fastest laps, Bagnaia managed a 1m29.519s versus a 1m29.621s from Martin.
It was fine margins that helped Bagnaia to victory, but they were noted by Martin, who said: “I think we need to change the strategy a bit. He, as you can see, has really good confidence at the beginning of the race with the full tank and he is able to keep that first position. “We always ride with the full fuel tank and sometimes it’s worse, but sometimes it helps because in the race we are already prepared. It wasn’t easy, it’s always very difficult in this track to overtake because if you brake one metre later you are wide. So, it was very important to be calm and not do a stupid manoeuvre.”
“If everything is just respectful out and on the track, I’m even happy for him for his victory and I will hope this relationship keeps like this all of our lives.”
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