“He told me he was sure he was going to die.”

Jorge Martín was proclaimed MotoGP world champion in 2024, a dream come true for the Madrid rider which will end in 2025, a difficult season marked by injuries, especially after the heavy crash at the Qatar GP during which he broke several ribs and suffered chest trauma. “From Heaven to Hell,” a documentary in which he and his entourage talk about what the last year was like, reveals some of the most complicated moments the pilot went through.

The 2025 season went wrong for Martín from the first moment, when on February 7 he underwent surgery on his right hand and left foot. “I went from the best and happiest time of my life to the beginning of this nightmare”he explains in the documentary ‘Martinator’.

And although he recovered very quickly from his injury, he had a karting accident in Lleida before going to the tests in Thailand: “I don’t remember the fall very well, but I was just saying: ‘It’s not possible, it’s not happening.’ “He went to the hospital moving his hand, with three fractures, but saying: “It’s not that bad.”

However, the worst happened during the Qatar GP, when during the race he crashed on the 14th lap and Giannantonio could not avoid hitting his bike while going wheel to wheel with him. Jorge Martín remained on the ground for a few seconds until the marshals came to him. Martin was transported by helicopter and then evacuated to a hospital in Doha for chest trauma, with a pneumothorax and eleven broken ribs.

“We cried a lot, we were very scared. He told me he was sure he was going to die. He was broken, he doubted he could even run again, » admits María Monfort, the pilot’s girlfriend, about the first meeting.

Shortly after this hard fall, Jorge Martín made official his intention to terminate the contract with Aprilia at the end of the season.

“I started to doubt myself and a lot of things,” Jorge explains. He is referring to the fact that he considered leaving Aprilia, thus breaking his contract. “Albert (Valera, the manager) came to me and said: ‘I think we could leave, Honda is behind him, the offer is very good’. I said: ‘Are you kidding?’. The next day I went to Madrid to see him, to see if it was true. He told me it was better for him to leave. I said, ‘I’m sorry, but I’m not going to let you go.'”

A week before, Aprilia took victory with Bezzecchi at the Silverstone GP and MotoGP broadcasts Marc Márquez’s conversation with Massimo Rivola himself. “Congratulations, you needed it,” acknowledged the world champion, to which the leader replied: “I hope he (Jorge Martín) realizes what we can do”.

The next return was to Brno, where the waters had already calmed with Noale’s men agreeing to stay. “He told me that the feeling of finishing this race was more or less like winning the title, because it was like being reborn,” says María.