{"id":654051,"date":"2026-05-06T20:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654051\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T20:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:40:08","slug":"jorge-martin-convinced-of-another-step-at-le-mans-motogp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654051\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Martin \u201cconvinced of another step\u201d at Le Mans MotoGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Martin heads for this weekend\u2019s Le Mans MotoGP in a \u201cconfident\u201d mood, as he seeks to confirm progress made at the Jerez test.<\/p>\n<p>After missing part of winter testing, Martin used the post-race test to catch up on existing Aprilia parts he hadn\u2019t had time to try, as well as new developments.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being ranked tenth and last of the RS-GP riders on the timesheets, the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP <\/a>champion was all smiles afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery new thing I was putting on the bike, I was feeling another step forward, another step forward,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/973236\/jorge-martin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin<\/a> explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot say what [the parts are], but they helped me to turn a bit better, have a bit more of rear grip, and everything is becoming more natural for my style.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time I go on the track I feel more on my bike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martin, who lost points to title-leading team-mate Marco Bezzecchi at the Spanish Grand Prix, will be making his Aprilia debut at Le Mans, having missed last year\u2019s race due to injury.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\u201cI\u2019m confident for this weekend. The Jerez tests were positive and now the goal is to confirm the progress made on different tracks as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be highly important in order to validate the new technical solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel rather good physically, even better than in recent races, and I\u2019m convinced that we\u2019ll be able to take another step forward here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martin won at Le Mans during his most recent 2024 appearance, as a Pramac Ducati rider.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/995158\/marco-bezzecchi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Bezzecchi<\/a>, winner of the 2023 event on a VR46 Ducati, qualified seventh and finished 14th in last year\u2019s flag-to-flag race.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian, whose run of five grand prix victories ended at the hands of Alex Marquez at Jerez, takes an eleven-point world championship lead over Martin into this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m extremely happy to be racing in Le Mans. It is a fantastic circuit and there are always a lot of fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m quite keen to continue doing well, so we\u2019ll try to put in a good weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll be working with the team to be competitive throughout the weekend and to leave with a good race result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jorge Martin heads for this weekend\u2019s Le Mans MotoGP in a \u201cconfident\u201d mood, as he seeks to confirm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[18009,10669,64,63,5744,10732,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-654051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-aprilia","tag-aprilia-racing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jorge-martin","tag-marco-bezzecchi","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654051","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=654051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}