The Italian Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), third at the Australian Grand Prix but new leader of the MotoGP World Championship, showed up “Happy for the championship lead, but not so much for the race.”
“When I saw ‘Fabio out’ on the board, everything changed for me in the race, because I knew my goal was to win. But when Fabio fell I decided to be calm if I had no choice at the endbut what’s clear to me is that I won’t do stupid things, because I’ve done a lot and that’s the best thing”, Bagnaia sincerely admitted.
In the race itself, “Pecco” explained that he managed the tires “throughout the race.” “In the last six laps I had no front tireI’m devastated, but I’m very happy because third place is very important for the championship and now we’re going to Malaysia.”
However, he happily admitted that “having 23 points is better than the fourteen we had.”
“Here my bike is obviously the fastest on the straight, but it rotated less and had more movementIt’s more difficult for me to follow the other riders, but now we’re going to Malaysia, a circuit that certainly won’t be easy, but I think our bike will help us and we’ll see,” emphasized Bagnaia.
De Fabio recognized that “He’s in a difficult moment, that’s clearbecause he is always competitive and then in the race he starts to have problems and in qualifying he is not there at the front, or he finds it more difficult to be in the first rows or in the first positions”.
“Honestly, I don’t know what happened, but clearly Yamaha is currently having trouble racing, maybe because of the tire and pressure, or maybe because its engine is slower than the others. Right now I don’t know what’s going on with them,” explained the Ducati rider.
As for his rivals for success, Alex Rins and Marc Marquezpointed out: “Going round behind them, I saw it Marc pushed really hard to get back to the frontbut Álex had a little more traction and he came out of turn 11 very well, going to 12. If Marc passed him in 9 or 10, even Álex could have passed him back in turns 11 or 12 until he could reach the finish line, because I had a little traction.
Source: La Verdad
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