“Well, I always say that I am grateful for the bad things that happened to me, because if you take that as something to improve, something to learn from it, it just makes you a better man. So all the bad things that happened to me make me the man that I am today,” he added.
“I am here at Aprilia and I will defend these colours [as long as] I am with them. So I’m really happy to have this relationship also and to be so united with Aprilia at this moment.”
After being hunted down and caught by Martin late in the race, and thus conclusively defeated in a straight Sunday fight for the first time by the 2026 incarnation of his team-mate, Marco Bezzecchi had plenty to ponder after the French GP. He still has a slender one-point lead in the championship, but the bad news for him is that Martin reckons there is more to come in terms of his relationship with the bike.
“We still don’t have my base [set-up],” said the man from Madrid. “So I’m working on that. And I think this will be the key during the future races to find it. So, let’s say after the summer break, I can have ‘my’ bike and I just get to ride it.”
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