Gino Borsoi: Martin’s time at Pramac ‘has come to an end’
Prima Pramac’s team manager Gino Borsoi confirmed that in 2024 Jorge Martin will be looking elsewhere for a factory team whether it is with Ducati or another manufacturer.
Shehryar Bin Shahid 14th March 2024
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In an interview with Motorsports.com, Prima Pramac Ducati’s Team Manager Gino Borsoi was certain that Jorge Martin’s time with Pramac will come to an end in 2024 and that he will be looking for a promotion to the works Ducati team for 2025.
“Is it said that Martin will not be part of next year’s project?” said Borsoi. “Personally, I think Jorge’s journey with the Pramac team, whether you like it or not, has come to a bit of an end.”
“He has been there for many years, he started from his first year in MotoGP and we are in the fourth year.”
“The next step has to be with an official bike, be it Ducati or whatever. He continues to prove that he is one of the fastest, or maybe the fastest or on par with Pecco, and he deserves, apart from a great season with us this year, to have a factory bike next year.”
Speaking on the first race weekend of the year, Gino Borsoi felt that it was looking to be a very complicated weekend, where Martin ‘rode through’ a problematic bike on Saturday to qualify on pole and win the Sprint race.
On Sunday, however, they were able to find a better setup for the race, but their hesitance to push early on cost them a chance to fight for the win.
“The weekend has been very good, starting from qualifying, which was perfect,” said the Italian.
“We managed to make a spectacular time (in qualifying), through the sprint race in the afternoon, which he won overcoming the problems we had with the bike.”
“Because on Saturday afternoon we still didn’t have the bike, let’s say, ready to be able to do a race like the one he did, he rode over all the problems and took a victory against all odds.”
“We knew we were going to suffer and he put in the magic, he was the artist on Saturday afternoon with a bike that didn’t arrive very well.”
“On Sunday we didn’t have the same problems as Saturday, much less, I would say, but he couldn’t attack from minute one because we were in alarm because of the vibration problem and tyre consumption.
“We had to start very cautiously, not wanting to attack from the first moment and this excess of caution, from the first lap, is what prevented him from fighting with Bagnaia.
“Pecco did start strong without worrying too much about the tyre and we were very conservative. I think that’s where we lost our chances to fight for the victory.”
