Martin says Indonesia MotoGP crash “was coming sooner or later”
The Spaniard won the sprint on Saturday at the Mandalika track to take a seven-point lead in the championship after Francesco Bagnaia struggled to eighth. Having taken the lead from sixth on the grid at Turn 1 of the grand prix, Martin looked set to dominate Sunday’s 27-lap contest when he crash ed out at Turn 11 on lap 13 while three seconds clear of the pack. Bagnaia came through to win the grand prix to retake the championship lead by 18 points. This crash , which Martin explained was down to him running onto the dirty part of the track at Turn 10 seconds before, marked his first DNF since the Americas GP. “Yeah, it was perfect,” Martin said of his race up to his crash . “I made a great start and then I was trying to make this gap a bit bigger. “Then when I saw 2.8s, I was really surprised and I said ‘ok, it’s time to maybe keep calm’. “I was a bit wide in corner 10 and it seemed like it was a bit dirty. So, when I went into corner 11 I lost the ...