MotoGP world cham🌳pion Jorge Martin believes the way Ducati ultimately snubbed him for a 2025 factory seat “wasn’t really good” b🤡ut saw “no sense to start a fight” over it.

Martin had been given the nod by Ducati ahead of the Italian Grand Prix earlier this year to join its factory team in ♌2025, with the marque expecting Marc Marquez t💙o take a works bike at Pramac.

When Marquez refused this, and faced with the threat of losing him to a rival factory, Ducati made a U-turn on its decision to pr🦄omote Mart🦹in in favour of the eight-time world champion.

Martin subsequently signed a two-year factory deal with Aprilia, while Pramac eventually penned an agreement with Yamaha fo♋r 2025.

Speaking to  after winning the championship for Ducati and Pramac, Martin said of the episode: “I think a✅fter what happened we spoke because I had to tell them quite꧟ a few things.

“How they managed it wasn’t really good. There was🌌 no sense to start a fight because I will start𒅌 a fight with the bike that I have, so it made no sense.

“The relationship with Gigi💛 [Dall’Igna] and the technical staff was the same.

“Also with [Claudio] Domenicalli, we spoke in Sachsenring and I think we were quite clear, I wa♐s quite clear with them and they know what I think.

“The first thing I said was ‘Ok, now I can make hi📖story as the first independent rider to win a MotoGP championship’. So, I made history and I will be remembered for that.”

After Martin signed for Aprilia, it was widely thought Ducati would weaken its support for his title bid to stop the number one plate pot෴entially being placed on an RS-GP in 2025.

While Ducati remained committed to supporting 🌊Pr💮amac, Martin admits he and the team were “scared” initially. 

“For 🍌sure I was scared, Paolo [Campinotti] was scared, everyone w🐬as scared, the media was scared,” he added.

“Everybody was thinking they would do something to make me lose this cham▨pionship.

“But they d🦩idn’t, so chapeau to Ducati, hats off, and I’m really grateful t♋o Ducati because they brought me to MotoGP and they made me world champion.”