An exhausted Jorge Martin confirmed that dehydration during Sunday’s Indian MotoGP almost cost him second place to Fabio Quartararo on the final lap.
“You have to trust me when I say I gave my 100%,” Martin explained in a voice message sent by his team. “I was dehydrated with 8 laps to go. So it was really difficult to finish the race, even though I was able to keep a good pace.
“Finally in the last lap I did a big mistake because of the dehydration and I went wide, so Fabio overtook me. But I could overtake back. So I’m really happy to take this second position.”After chipping away at Bagnaia’s title lead over the previous four races, Martin is well and truly back into title contention, sitting just 13 points behind the the factory Ducati star heading into next weekend’s Japanese MotoGP.
“I feel super, super happy for the team and also we recovered some points in the championship,” he said. “I think we have to keep the same mentality we came here to try to win, to try to be competitive all the practices and this is the way to be closing the gap.” A satellite rider has never won the four-stroke ‘MotoGP’ World Championship, which replaced 500cc in 2002.
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