{"id":10710,"date":"2025-07-21T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10710\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:11:07","slug":"more-details-of-jorge-martins-pre-brno-motogp-meeting-with-aprilia-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10710\/","title":{"rendered":"More details of Jorge Martin\u2019s pre-Brno MotoGP meeting with Aprilia emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aprilia team boss Paolo Bonora has revealed more details of the meeting reigning MotoGP world champion Jorge Martin held with his crew prior to the Czech Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard made his long-awaited return to racing last weekend at Brno, having been absent through injury since April\u2019s Qatar Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/973236\/jorge-martin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jorge Martin<\/a> did so off the back of a contract dispute with Aprilia while he was not racing, with the 2024 champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/news\/1077174\/1\/jorge-martins-motogp-u-turn-im-staying-aprilia-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ultimately confirming he will remain with the brand for 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference on Thursday at Brno, Martin said he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/news\/1077177\/1\/jorge-martin-aprilia-contract-fallout-i-have-no-regrets-i-dont-need-apologise\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">no regrets nor any need to apologise<\/a> to his team over the contract dispute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/news\/1077243\/1\/aprilia-reveals-details-jorge-martin-team-meeting-ahead-brno-motogp-return\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bonora revealed during the weekend<\/a> that Martin held a meeting with his team on Thursday evening, and has offered more details of what was said in an interview with TNT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Thursday Jorge held a short meeting with his side of the garage, his team members,\u201d Bonora said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wants to bring them inside his emotions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was clear: \u2018Please, forget, we will look only to the future, we want to join this team together, everybody needs to bring all of their effort and energy, as I will do\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a very good speech. All the team members waited for him without any doubts or problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martin qualified 12th at the Czech Grand Prix, finished 11th in the sprint and went on to take the chequered flag in the main race in seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Aprilia CEO Massimo Rivola <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/news\/1077487\/1\/aprilia-boss-hails-special-comeback-jorge-martin-czech-motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hailed this as a \u201cspecial comeback\u201d on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bonora echoed this, adding: \u201cIt was a very special moment, a special weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is something for us which is so important because Jorge joining the team gave us extra motivation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we have two strong and talented riders inside the garage. With the future clear, it is nice to plan the next development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so happy to have Jorge with Marco [Bezzecchi] inside the garage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martin will now have three weeks to process the Brno weekend before MotoGP returns from its summer break in Austria.<\/p>\n<p>Aprilia felt this, as well as the less physical nature of Brno, made the Czech Grand Prix the ideal return date for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought about it,\u201d Bonora said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore the medical evaluation one month ago, we were thinking \u2018when is the correct time to rejoin MotoGP?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think this is the best moment. Because he has time to evaluate his condition after this race, and to prepare for the next part of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought Sachsenring was too physical for him. We preferred a more fluent corner style, like this one. We think we made a good plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aprilia team boss Paolo Bonora has revealed more details of the meeting reigning MotoGP world champion Jorge Martin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,5744,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-10710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jorge-martin","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}