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# Podcast + video: Martin's huge Aprilia exit bombshell explained
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/motogp/jorge-martin-huge-aprilia-bombshell-explained-podcast-video/
- Published: 2025-05-13T04:50:08.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-13T11:50:18.000Z
- Description: MotoGP’s French Grand Prix was a completely crazy race - but then even crazier news emerged the morning after. The Race's MotoGP team attempts to cover all the chaos across video and audio platforms
- Author: The Race Team
- Tags: MotoGP, #jorge-martin, #aprilia, #video

MotoGP’s French Grand Prix at Le Mans was a completely crazy race - but then even crazier news emerged the morning after.

Here’s a special double episode of The Race MotoGP Podcast starting with Simon Patterson and Val Khorounzhiy on the bombshell news that Jorge Martin is seemingly looking for a way out of Aprilia having barely even raced for it.

How that’s even possible, where he would go and what Aprilia would do are all debated in an emergency mini-episode recorded as Simon was about to get on a plane out of France.

You can also watch that segment in video-form below: 

And then we’re onto the episode we actually planned to bring you - as Johann Zarco’s outstanding victory in MotoGP’s bizarre 2025 French Grand Prix gave Simon, Val and Matt Beer a LOT to debate. 

Did the new rules prompted by Marquez’s dash off the Austin grid work on their first appearance and was this actually a great race (Matt thinks so and Val sort of agrees) or a rubbish and processional non-spectacle? (Simon thinks so).

You can find the video version of that Le Mans review below: