Jorge
Martín

Jorge Martín’s passion for motorcycling was handed down to him from his father, who bought a young Jorge a pocket bike. Setting off with an ambition of beating his idol Valentino Rossi’s records, the young Jorge began to race and soon showed more than a spark of talent. In 2012, Jorge came within touching distance of the World Championship when he was accepted to compete in the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup. Injury affected his campaign, but when fully fit in 2013 Jorge showed he was one of the top riders to watch as he finished runner-up behind Karel Hanika. Expected to go one better the following year, Jorge showed he had the temperament to handle the kind of pressure his ambitions would bring, and he was crowned champion in 2014. It secured him a Moto3 World Championship ride for 2015, with the Aspar team. Jorge continued with Aspar in 2016, on a Mahindra, and he landed his first podium finish with a second place at Moto3 in Brno, Czech Republic in August of that year.  The 2017 season marked a new beginning for Jorge, as he began riding a Honda NSF250RW for Gresini Racing in the Moto3 World Championship after leaving Aspar at the end of 2016. And he made the most of it by grabbing nine podiums (one race win) and ended the season in fourth overall in the championship.