2024 MotoGP World Champion Jorge Martin missed a lot of last season with injury. It took Martin four laps in Qatar to make his Aprilia debut, but soon after he suffered another serious crash.
Martin He will not return to the Czech GP before the summer break. It was seven rounds and an absence of more than three months.
For Martin, the challenge wasn’t just adapting the Aprilia motorcycle. He also had to get back into top physical condition.
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And after the San Marino GP, the fifth race back, he shared his heartbeat with journalists, Simon Patterson The competition.
A MotoGP driver’s heart rate is up to 50bpm higher than an F1 driver’s.
According to Patterson, Martin’s heart rate was over 190 beats per minute (bpm) during the 27-lap San Marino Grand Prix.
One of the weekend’s special guests was Lando Norris, McLaren Formula 1 star and newly crowned world champion. Comparing the heart rate data to Martin’s, he found that his 50bpm range was lower during the run.
This is because driving an F1 car is more damaging to the muscles, especially the neck, than it is to the lungs.
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Patterson said: “At his media briefing on Sunday night, he insisted he was fully fit, pulling out the Garmin app on his phone to show he was hitting 192 bpm during the race.
“The reason he was excited to show us how high it was was because his new partner, Lando Norris, was with him all weekend. During the race, his heart rate drops a lot, because they’re not using their heart rate the same way. They’re using more muscle strength, but less cardio.”
“He and Lando were comparing heart rates, and during a MotoGP race Norris’s heart rate is 50bpm higher than in an F1 race.”
Lando Norris is a big fan of Valentino Rossi and MotoGP.
Norris idolized Valentino RossiAs seen in the fluorescent yellow helmet. As a child, he was a motorcycle enthusiast before switching his focus to four wheels.
According to Norris MotoGP is much ‘cooler’ than F1. Now he has the opportunity to speak with Rossi as an equal, and the doctor congratulates him on his first world championship.
Rossi says MotoGP is unparalleled. When the feeling of ‘adrenaline’ comes on the starting grid. This can be partly down to a big risk.
In the year No F1 drivers will miss a race through injury in 2025. But more than half of the full-time MotoGP riders (12 out of 22) did not attend at least one event.
