Martin was imperious in Saturday’s sprint on the Qatar GP to chop Francesco Bagnaia’s championship lead right down to seven factors and pressure the title battle to the Valencia finale subsequent week.
But in Sunday’s grand prix, Martin struggled from the off and ended up 14.819s off winner Fabio Di Giannantonio down in tenth, along with his deficit to Bagnaia – who was second – rising to 21 factors.
Martin blamed his type on a rear tyre that “was like a stone” from the beginning of the 22-lap race and has raged towards Michelin – although refused to call the tyre provider.
“Nicely, I don’t know. It’s obscure. Seems like I forgot to journey,” he started.
“I believe you can see in the beginning when the rear tyre began spinning, it was like a stone.
“Usually this occurs when the observe is soiled. It wasn’t, as a result of it was the grid, and when the tyre perhaps has 30 laps [on it], and it didn’t as a result of it was new.
“So, you possibly can guess what occurred by your personal. From that time I attempted to handle just a little bit however I felt I used to be crashing each nook on the rear.
“It’s a pity {that a} championship like this, after such a fantastic season, working arduous, I really feel like they [Michelin] stole it from me as a result of I believe I might do it [win] earlier than this race.
“Now it’s actually tough. So, no matter. I believe it’s tough to know what occurred precisely.”
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Jorge Martin, Pramac Racing
Martin added that the issue solely emerged in the beginning and “after three laps I understood that it was not possible to do the identical” as he did within the dash.
On the time of his media debrief, he had but to talk to Michelin, however says it’s “unacceptable {that a} MotoGP championship is set by a tyre”.
On Friday in Qatar, Martin complained of a lack of rear grip, whereas Bagnaia struggled for tempo within the dash because of the identical drawback.
Problematic tyres have compromised riders’ races prior to now, however when requested what they’ll do to finish this problem, Martin replied: “I believe they don’t even perceive what occurred.
“I assume they don’t need to determine a championship. They need to be aggressive. I believe so, I hope so, that they need to give us the identical circumstances.
“However I misplaced 1.5s of tempo in at some point. I believe I didn’t overlook to journey and I believe they should enhance and they should analyse so it doesn’t occur once more sooner or later.
“Hopefully I can battle for championships sooner or later, however as we speak I really feel an enormous loss as a result of it’s actually tough [to win the championship] now.”
Martin is satisfied he might have crushed his rivals on Sunday below regular circumstances and says the feelings he felt had been “like a relationship” in 40 minutes.
“In some unspecified time in the future I began laughing, as a result of it’s not that they beat me on observe,” he stated.
“With the identical circumstances, belief me, I used to be capable of beat them as we speak. However in some unspecified time in the future I used to be pissed off, I used to be upset.
“It was like an enormous relationship, however just for 40 minutes. I had all of the moments. I’m pissed off for positive as a result of I believe I deserve this championship additionally and we misplaced an enormous half as we speak.”
Michelin says it’s nonetheless analysing what occurred with Martin’s tyre and that it was by no means used previous to the grand prix.