The Italian Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP23), second in the MotoGP Thai Grand Prix, He indicated that for him “it’s not a bad result” considering all he had to go through. during the race.
In this sense, he explained that he made the start “perfect” and that he was thinking “about managing the rear tire”, but “before the end of the first turn the fight started”, so he had “a lot handles and this.” is quite intense.” For this reason, he emphasized, he could not manage well the “need to pull to close the distance” and contact the “leading group with conditions that are not ideal for the rear tire.” “But I finished second thanks to Brad hitting the green on the last lap,” he added.
Almost at the end of the race, Bagnaia tried to pass his two rivals from the outside and acknowledged that “if he achieved a double pass from the outside, it would be the best in recent years.”
“The normal thing is that, if you go on the outside and there is a driver on the inside, he is going to release the brakes with the risk of touching the one on the outside, I expected it, I would have done the same . , but I expected to be ahead of the entrance to the curve,” explained the pilot.
On the last lap he stressed that he tried, but “coming out of turns 1 and 3” he saw “that he had no tires and was missing a lot.” “I won in the third sector, but it wasn’t enough to get close and I waited for Brad to overtake Jorge, but he didn’t have a chance, it’s hard to have chances,” he highlighted.
Fighting for the title, “Pecco” Bagnaia remembers that he started this tour with a lead of three points and he left with 13: “It was a positive balance and we finally regained the good feeling” .
“Today I was able to brake more, fight and be stronger for the weekend, although I am angry with yesterday’s result because I lost too much at the start and gave up points. We have to improve the first laps of the sprint race. and in the classification ,” insisted Bagnaia.
Source: La Verdad
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