It is the issue of the MotoGP moment and it is not for less. The current world champion, while recovering from a very serious injury, has traveled to France to tell Aprilia that you want to go. Well, more or less that is what has transcended, because the reality is that it seems that Jorge and his environment has given some deadlines depending on the contract, the thing has been lied and … well, if you want more details about the matter, it is best that you read in the article that we prepare what is happening.
Now, beyond the details itself, in reality the situation needs an “amendment to the whole” and needs it for several factors. The first one is because if we have reached this situation, it is mainly due to a first hot decision, which was to give up in Pramac Ducati when the doors of the official team closed. If it was fair or not complicated to say, but being honest, would Jorge shown the level of Marc? Each one who responds with the heart in the hand …
And in those see you, with a “rebound” that leaves aprilia as a future option. The RS-GP from outside and in the hands of Aleix and Maverick did not seem to have a bad base. And although it is true that it is not the desmosedici, it is also true that from the rest and always from the outside it seemed the best available option.
The first mistake was made in Mugello
But the first mistake, not to breathe and think calmly, to want to hit first, to show who commands (when the pilots are unfortunately pure merchandise for equipment and organization) precipitated a decision that, if we attend to the statements of the previous days, could not be very meditated.
Before continuing, we talk about Jorge because it is the visible head of the business. It is the man-company who behind himself has other people who help him make decisions or who sometimes give the sensation, come to take them for him. Jorge’s work is to give gas, the work of the rest facilitates the tools so that the risk he assumes has the reward he deserves.
But let’s continue a step forward. We arrived at the Barcelona tests, with Jorge newly proclaimed champion, with Ducati, letting him try the Aprilia act followed by getting out of the Ducati, and in a single day we can say that Jorge was in reasonable times. No one could imagine that the perfect storm was forming.
After Barcelona came the cold winter that in Andorra, a perfect place to train and say the bad languages that also pay less taxes, seemed to pass quietly and then simply the disaster arrived. Little more than a dozen turns, two falls and a visit to the hospital, the preseason could not start worse and the season could not complicate more before starting … or so we believed.
Counterreloj, with Jorge putting everything to be ready for the beginning in Thailand. When it seemed that everything was prepared, pum, second injury training in Supermotard a few days before the first GP. So the debut had to postpone to Qatar, the fourth appointment of the season and there came the most absolute disaster with a fall that, luckily, with more or less time it will end up staying in one more battle, but that could have fatal consequences.
If we fulfill the contract, we fulfill the contract
That is, between preseason, Qatar GP training, the Sprint race and the race part before going to the ground, Martín has completed less kilometers than the rest of the pilots simply in the Thailand tests. In addition, many of those kilometers made them in Barcelona and the others in Qatar, after months without getting into a motorcycle and in a physical state that was not even the most optimal and that, perhaps one day, we know if it was behind that strange fall.
But there is an extra thing that so far we have overlooked: the pasta. You know that I always remember that this is a business, the pilots do not matter, it matters what they generate. That is why MotoGP needed Valentino’s substitute and now he needs a substitute for Marc. For that same reason there are contracts in which it is stipulated that if a pilot does not run does not charge, regardless of whether the reason is a serious injury. And, perhaps because of that, Martín returned in Qatar without being ready and is also riding the one that is being riding.
At first, one putting himself in Jorge’s skin can think “if we fulfill the contract, we fulfill the contract.” And if there is a clause that leaves you without charging if you do not run and run, and there is a clause that leaves you free by performance, “it is me who executed it.”
And this is when it comes to breathe. The situation must be analyzed calmly, leave the testosterone and the ego stored for when it returns to track and really see what can be achieved. Of course, someone says with 42 years and not with the 27 that Jorge has. But that is where the environment has to make Jorge understand that the confrontation is not a good idea, and less when the doors of KTM and Ducati was closed badly. Because also closing those of Aprilia, it leaves you in a situation that only two other builders are left.
Sometimes not even talent protects you from bad decisions
It would be good for someone to remember that such talented guys as Biaggi have stayed on the street for reasons of this type, although they are not equal and the Spanish is much more restrained than Max. Therefore, if something teaches time, you have to take a breath, analyze the entire situation well and then decide. And when he decides he leaves with everything, to good the bad.
In addition, there are also those who say that it can be a strategy to press Aprilia and that is a bit weird. Relationship that makes you choose is a relationship that does not interest and if you add it against the strings, you cannot expect them to give you flowers.
What is attracted to me is that this situation of direct confrontation we have seen in another pilot this winter, one Pedro Acosta. Do you know what they have in common in addition to a great talent? I don’t think it’s a coincidence …
