A MotoGP race winner for the first time since Austria in 2021, Martin beat reigning world champion Francesco Bagnaia to victory, after already 🤡winning his second sprint of the season on Saturday.

The Pramac rider, who didn’t have things all his own way unlike the 😼sprint, was💯 able to respond when Bagnaia passed him at turn 11 with nine laps to go, as he made the same overtake as on lap three.

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After five podiums in a row, which includes his Le Mans sprint 🤡win, Martin called it an emotional victory.

"It was so emotional today to win. 🧸I struggled quite a lot last season to be competitive and 🍷it was really frustrating. 

"But 💧we’ve cꦜome back this season and I’ve been strong almost everywhere. Being on the podium so many times and missing that victory but today it came. 

"Today was a tough race. Pecco improved a lot. He did an amazing step from yesterday to today - I saw it al🍸ready in the warmꩵ-up. 

"I was looking at the dat🥀a and saw it was the same rider, so he improv🌼ed a lot. I tried to do the same as yesterday and make this small gap. 

"But I was going too much into the ꦦrear tyre so I said it’s better that he catches me and let’s see what happens at the end. 

"When he overtook me, I changed the strategy a little༒ because I thought he was going to be with a little bit more tyre. I wanted to fight back straight away. He was pushing a lot and it wasn’t easy to keep the concentration."

Martin and Bagnaia, along with another Ducati rider in Johann Zarco, prov﷽ed that overtaking at Sachsenring was possible which was something others struggled to do.

And w🐼hile not everyone agreed that Sachsenring was a good circuit for overtaking, Martin and Bagnaia felt as though it wasn’t an issue. 

Martin sa🐼id🌼: "It’s not easy but in the first lap I went from sixth to second, also I did that yesterday. 

"I feel like🎶 it was difficult to overtake and for sure it is not a track that is easy [to overtake], but I th🅰ink there are riders that can overtake better and some that struggle a bit more.” 

"It’s not the first time that we’ve heard something like that,” added Bagnaia. “I remember in Jereཧz we did a race of just overtaking. 

"Today we demonstrated that if you’re able to overtake and you have the spe💫ed, then you can do it."