The Italian pecco bagnaia He arrived at the Sachsenring once again as the outstanding leader of the MotoGP World Championship with a 21-point lead over Marco Bezzecchi and 24 over Jorge Martín after his total of 37 points in the Mugello event. But the Ducati leader visited the circuit where a year ago he crashed and came out of it 91 points behind the seemingly stable leader Fabio Quartararo, who won the race absent for fourth surgery on the arm of the great favorite Marc Márquez.
After Jerez Bagnaia dominated Bezzecchi by 22 points before squandering his lead at the next French GP, his intention from the start was to “start like at Mugello”.
“It is a circuit in which the performance was last year, because when we were competitive on Friday, I also took pole position and then on Sunday the whole world knew what happened, that I crashed, so the important thing is to start from the same the way we ended up in Mugello, with the same feeling I had here last year”, explained the MotoGP world championship leader in a press conference.
“We are going to try, but it will not be easy, since it seems that the conditions will be changeable and that they can change fast, like today, so we will see, although I am confident that we can have a good one. performance and be competitive,” he admitted.
He said that last year’s experience serves as a point of concentration for him: “What happened was difficult, it was a complicated moment because it was the first time I was competing here and, suddenly, everything was lost, so I tried to understand what happened and the potential we have.”
“From that moment, everything changed, from Assen we were always at the top, being competitive and fighting for victory and it was a very good return because my feelings on the bike were wonderful, and sometimes I still remember also the Sachsenring and using it to find greater. concentration,” he recalls.
At the Sachsenring, he emphasized: “We are talking about a circuit where the left corners dominate and I usually do better on the right-handers, because I prefer it because of the position of my body, but on this circuit that’s what makes the crowd. The difference is the consistency and consumption of the rear tire, so it’s a completely different story compared to Mugello.”
And what he considers a great favorite is Marc Márquez: “Considering the record of this circuit, Marc -Márquez- undoubtedly has more chances than the other and also considering when he was came back in 2021 and won here in a race where He showed. that he is very competitive, for me the main contender in this circuit is him”, he emphasized.
Source: La Verdad
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