Moto GP, Marquez warns Martin: “24 points seem like a lot, but…”

Sepang, November 3, 2024 – Jorge Martin he still has some work to do to win the world championship, says Marc MarquezThe Spaniard has a twenty-four point advantage over Pecco bagnaia, who pays for the fall in the Sprint Race at Sepang, because on Sunday he dominated at the end of a great duel with his rival, so with 37 points available he needs a half miracle. The race will be in Barcelona, ​​which replaces Valencia hit by the flood. Maybe a small advantage for Pecco, but the gap is so wide that a sensational misstep by Jorge is needed. A shame for the Italian who has won ten races and if there were no Sprint Races he would be in the lead, exactly with a 24 point advantage. Sliding doors mocking.  

Marquez warns: “Pecco is going strong in Barcelona”

Practically a long race advantage for Jorge Martin which cannot finish with the same number of points due to a lower number of victories, so if bagnaia should get 37, success in sprint and in race, the Spaniard will have to accumulate at least 14. It would be enough for him, for example, to arrive third on Sunday, 16 points, to win the title even if he were to fall on Saturday. Marc Marquez but he is aware that 24 points seem like a lot, but they do not give total certainty and there is still work to do for the first Moto GP world championship of the Pramac rider: "With the race weekends on both Saturday and Sunday the advantage is not so definitive, plus we race in Barcelona where Pecco is strong. In Valencia, however, I would have thought of a Martin on the attack”, Marc commented. In the GP already disputed in the spring he won bagnaia Sunday with Martin secondly, a sign that Spanish isn't slow either. Marquez he still preaches calm: "We'll see how it goes, but we'll need to understand the track conditions and they'll definitely have to attack". More Pecco, because Martin he can manage the result as he did in the second part of the Malaysian GP and then on Saturday the Pramac rider is more incisive, an advantage that is not insignificant and which is decisive today on the world championship. bagnaia, in fact, has won ten times, practically half of the races, and without sprint races he would be leading with 24 points, that is, his current deficit. The situation is reversed. If it were up to him, he would erase sprints from the calendar, as he made clear with a joke at the end of the Malaysian GP: "I would sign immediately to erase them - Pecco said with a smile - It's ironic to think that without sprints I would be ahead by 24 points...". The small consolation is that ten races won in a season belong only to the very best: "It's something incredible to have won so much, unfortunately there are sprints that count but I'm honored to be among the few drivers who have won so much". And on that pothole that made him fall yesterday: "I hit it several times even in the race but nothing happened. It happens". Read also - Malaysian GP Moto GP, Riccardo Galli's report cards