Bagnaia admits: “Now I’m broken”

The Italian Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaiawho fell into a dispute with Fabio Quartararo for eighth place in the MotoGP race, acknowledged: “Today I made a big mistake. I broke down, because I tried to be in front from the start, but I couldn’t do anything. I struggled do everything, “he admitted”.

“It’s a bit strange, because this morning everything was perfect. We were lucky that Quartararo didn’t make a difference and that he didn’t make much progress, like me, and that Aleix had a problem. But this can’t happen because today was a day not to make mistakes, not to lose points and try to win some, but in the last lap I tried because I knew I could only under braking, because when accelerating the other bikes have more traction than mine, and we have to see why”, explained the Italian.

“I’ve tried and I’ve made a very serious mistake, I’ve apologized to the whole team, because they’ve done a great job and I haven’t finished yet, that’s what annoys me the most,” insisted Bagnaia. .

Regarding his teammate, he highlighted that “Jack was very fast all weekend; on Friday he did the same time as me, but lost four tenths due to facing the ‘wild card’, which caused him to lose a lot of time , and yesterday. he was very fast and then , what happened this morning was almost the same pace, but he had more traction than me and we tried to do something, but throughout the weekend he was at a higher level”.

“We have to look at what happened, especially because I couldn’t overtake, which normally isn’t a problem for us, but today it was,” insisted the Ducati rider.

From his fight with Bastianini he met that “he was going faster when he caught me and I was going to do the same. He got ahead and settled with Quartararo, but then I came in stronger and caught him, as usual and as I said before the this race, that since we don’t have team orders, we just have to think about respecting each other and doing it right”.