Jorge Martin was under heavy criticism from Massimo Rivola after destroying four riders at the Hungarian Grand Prix, but the Aprilia boss quickly changed his tune.
Martin At the start, when going to turn one, he locked the front Hungarian Grand Prix. He broke through the pack himself, bringing out Marco Bezecic, Raul Fernandez and Fermin Aldegar.
with Aprilia Not scoring points opened the door for Marc Marquez to close the gap on the championship with a win. After the competition Rivola blamed Martin No world champion should make such a mistake.
Both went out in a five-rider accident at the start of April! 😲 Was George Martin’s double long ban fair?
Martin, Bezecchi, Di Gianntonio, Aldeguer and Fernandez are out.
Massimo Rivola realized he was wrong to criticize Jorge Martin after the Hungarian Grand Prix crash.
Martin faces two lengthy sentences. The role of the Czech GP in the accident. When he made a mistake, some people came to his defense, with Peko Bagnaia blaming the track surface for the accident in the first lap.
Some called out the Aprilia boss for criticism. Riccardo Jove accused Rivola of having a ‘vendetta’ against Martin.And he quickly realized that it was wrong to make such a public protest.
Journalist Simon Paterson spoke to people in the paddock at Balaton Park about how Rivola changed his tone between the TV interview and the written press interview. He appeared to walk back his comments about Martin.
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“What I’ve read about it is a little bit different from talking to a lot of people in the paddock, even though I’m not on site, so that’s still very strange,” he said. Race MotoGP podcast.
“I think Rivola was a bit calmer between saying on TV, that was the inspiration for the season, and realizing that Martin did something stupid, but I don’t think he did something…
“It wasn’t as crazy as I thought some people were making it out to be. Yeah, he should have known the pavement he’d been complaining about all weekend.
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But these races start just as rapid-fire races do, and this year they’ve dominated the Aprilia. He allowed him to deliver and this year he was not wrong.
I think he tried to do what he was doing and got it a little bit wrong. And maybe Rivola looked at the circumstances around him and calmed down a bit.
Because the two interviews were two very different interviews, Val had a very different voice every time he spoke to you in the TV interview.
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