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[ad_1] JAKARTA: Pramac Racing's Jorge Martin won his fourth straight sprint with a spectacular showing at the Indonesia Grand Prix in Mandalika on Saturday to roar to the top of the championship standings after Ducati's Francesco Bagnaia ended in eighth. Martin, who started on the second row in sixth place, held off a late charge by pole-sitter Luca Marini, with Marini's VR46 Racing teammate Marco Bezzecchi coming in third. "I feel super! Starting from sixth place maybe was not the best, it's definitely not the best for tomorrow's race," Martin said. "But I was able to overtake on this track, where normally it's so difficult. Winning was tough, because Luca was coming up really fast in the end, but leading the championship at this point feels great. It's a dream. I'm so, so happy to be in the front, hopefully tomorrow we can finish the weekend in the same way." The Spaniard turned on the aggression as soon as he shot off

[ad_1] AUSTRALIA: Spain's Jorge Martin is determined to cut out any errors as a tense title race shifts to Phillip Island this week after a blunder in Indonesia cost him his lead in the MotoGP standings. The Pramac ace won the sprint at the Mandalika track in Lombok last weekend to build a seven-point championship advantage over Italy's Francesco Bagnaia . But he blew the hard work in Sunday's grand prix, crashing at a gravel trap while three seconds clear and seemingly on track for his fourth victory of the year. It was his first non-score in a grand prix since round three at Austin in April. With just five stops of the 20-leg season left, he cannot afford any more slip ups in Australia with Bagnaia on his Ducati now 18 points ahead and fellow Italian Marco Bezzecchi still in the hunt, 45 points behind. Martin blamed a dirty track for his mishap, and insisted it was a one-off. "It's been 14 races without a mistake. It's just statistics. It was c

[ad_1] AUSTIN: Spaniard Jorge Martin set the fastest time as Ducatis had another strong day Friday in practice for the Grand Prix of the Americas . Martin on a Ducati Pramac recorded a time of 2 minutes 2.178 seconds in the second session of the day to edge reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia, on a factory Ducati, by 0.063sec. In the injury absence of Honda leader Marc Marquez, who has claimed six of the eight times the race has been run at the Circuit of The Americas, and Enea Bastianini , who was first last year, Alex Rins, is the only previous winner in the field. The Spaniard, who won in the elite class in Austin in 2019, was the only non-Ducati in the top five, finishing third on his LCR Honda. Luca Marini, who has been fastest in the morning session on 2:03.25 improved by more than an eighth of a second in the afternoon and was fourth on his Mooney Ducati. Alex Marquez was fifth on his Gresini Ducati. The pressure was on under the new format. The ten fastest in Frid