{"id":306252,"date":"2025-11-24T20:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/306252\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:22:09","slug":"jorge-martin-says-his-shitty-2025-motogp-season-wont-define-my-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/306252\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Martin says his \u201cshitty\u201d 2025 MotoGP season \u201cwon\u2019t define my career\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aprilia\u2019s Jorge Martin branded his injury-plagued 2025 MotoGP season as a \u201cshitty year\u201d, but insists it \u201cwon\u2019t define my career\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard went from the extreme highs of winning his first world title in 2024 with Pramac Ducati to his 2025 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/aprilia-racing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aprilia<\/a> beginning on the back of two major injuries.<\/p>\n<p>He missed the opening three rounds before being ruled out until just before the summer break when he crashed heavily during his return at the Qatar Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>He returned for a second time at the Czech Grand Prix, having put aside a contract dispute with Aprilia, and made good progress in adapting to the RS-GP in the following rounds.<\/p>\n<p>A season-best fourth came at the Hungarian Grand Prix, hinting at bigger results in the final rounds.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>But he suffered a complicated shoulder fracture in a crash at the start of the Japanese Grand Prix sprint, and was forced to sit on the sidelines until the Valencia finale.<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Martin \u201clearned very little\u201d from title-winning MotoGP season<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on his luckless title defence campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/973236\/jorge-martin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jorge Martin<\/a> admits he learned more from it than he did in 2024 when he won the championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learned very little from last year \u2013 the year I was crowned champion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom this year, I&#8217;ve learned much more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;m sure of, it&#8217;s that I&#8217;m going to be better, I&#8217;m going to compete better, I&#8217;m going to eat better, and I&#8217;m going to train better.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year has given me that, not last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve learned that I love this sport more than I ever imagined, because after a year like this, I could have waited until February to get back on the bike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut this shitty year won&#8217;t define my career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aprilia\u2019s Jorge Martin branded his injury-plagued 2025 MotoGP season as a \u201cshitty year\u201d, but insists it \u201cwon\u2019t define&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[10669,64,63,5744,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-306252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-aprilia-racing","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-jorge-martin","12":"tag-motor","13":"tag-motor-sports","14":"tag-motosport","15":"tag-motosports","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306252","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=306252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}