With just one round remaining in the 2023 MotoGP season, it doesn't look good for Jorge Martín. And he knows it.
"Hopefully I can fight for championships in the future, but today I feel a big loss because it's really difficult [to win the championship] now," the Prima Pramac Ducati rider, who sits second in the world championship standings, told members of the media after Sunday's Grand Prix of Qatar.
Martín and title rival Pecco Bagnaia of Lenovo Ducati experienced a remarkable turn of fortunes throughout the weekend's events just outside of Doha. Martín won Saturday's Sprint while Bagnaia finished a distant fifth, which cut the latter's championship lead to just seven points.