"Pecco is still the favourite. He's the number one."
To put that into perspective, Martin - who finished title runner-up to Francesco Bagnaia last season - scored just 29 points from the opening three events of last year and was eleventh in the standings.
Martin insists he’s not yet thinking about the 2024 title and still puts Pecco as favourite alongside a trio of other top rivals, but ‘history’ shows the champions have been consistent. “So we need to be happy and keep going in this way because we are working quite well, just focusing on ourselves, trying to improve the results from last season.”
“The rivals are strong. We have Marc, even Pedro is really, really, really good and constant. So we never know. Enea is also super strong for all the weekends. So the important thing is that we are fast everywhere and we need to be focused on that.
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