‘I have a killer mentality – it's better if we are enemies’

Few MotoGP riders are more spectacular or aggressive than last year's runner-up, Jorge Martin. Now he's all set to fight for the 2024 title with fellow Ducati riders Pecco Bagnaia, Marco Bezzecchi and Marc Marquez

By Mat Oxley

Motorcycle racing is super-cool, at least for real people who prefer real sport over mere games. Like rough, tough American author Ernest Hemingway, who once said: ‘There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.’ (We didn't agree with him about bullfighting.) In other words, motorcycle racing is vicious and dangerous, and anyone who tries to make it to the top risks their life every step of the way. And yet one of many things I like about the sport is that some of its greatest exponents really don't look like they earn their living by charging around racetracks at stupid speeds and carving up anyone who dares get in their way. Take reigning MotoGP king Pecco Bagnaia. If you saw the Italian walking down…

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