George Martin revealed he had signed a contract to race with Ducati in 2023, but the team scrapped the deal and signed Ine Bastianini instead.
The Spaniard has moved up to MotoGP in 2021. Pramak And spent four seasons with the current satellite Ducati group. After his first two years with one win, eight podiums and nine pole positions, he was elected to the factory seat.
As a matter of fact MartinIn the year He has signed a contract to race with Ducati in 2023. In the year
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George Martin signed with Ducati for 2023 but they broke the deal to sign Ine Bastianini.
Despite the agreement with Ducati, the Bologna Bullets chose to continue and sign Martin Bastianini With Bagania. The Spaniard stayed at Pramac for the next two years, where he finished second in 2023 before winning the championship the following year.
Speaking on Gypsy Tales PodcastMartin said he was ‘happy’ to stay with Pramac on a factory bike. However, he always wanted to show them that Ducati could compete with them, and it was hard to understand him not getting that chance.
“I always want to prove that I am the right person for Ducati,” he said. “I still think I’m the right person, I think so, but as I said that year, ‘If Ducati doesn’t want me, I’ll give my talent to someone else.’
“My skills are still there and I can ride another motorcycle, as far as I understand, this was something, because we were always on the edge.
“It was 2022, I signed my contract for 23 on a factory ride. At some point they said, ‘OK, you’re not going there. We don’t need you, we need another rider’. It was crazy. I don’t think anyone knew.
“Then we signed another contract, it’s fine, I’ll accept the situation because I was happy with Pramac on the factory bike. So at the end of the day it wasn’t that different.
“But then I came out on top. I got to the final race, let’s say, I got to the final race, I was very close to winning, and they wanted me to go back to the factory team.
But it means they had a contract with another rider. The contract means nothing to the big factories. And they play really well with us riders, we give 100%, but yes, it’s hard for us to understand this.
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