Francesco Bagnaia unsure on running #1 or #63 for MotoGP title defence - but this is how he will choose…

Francesco Bagnaia will make a last-gasp decision on whether to run the #No1 or #No63 plate for his maiden MotoGP title defence.
Francesco Bagnaia, Valencia MotoGP test, 8 November
Francesco Bagnaia, Valencia MotoGP test, 8 November

The Ducati rider has carried the #63 for his entire premier class career but new𝔉 opportunities have arisen after he captured the MotoGP championship on the final day of the 2022 season.

He could now become the first reigning champion since 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Casey Stoner in 2012 to run the #1.

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"I've changed my mind quite a few times, so I've decided that on Tuesday, right before the photo session with the 2023 bike, I will arrive with both numbers 🌞and I will stick on what I feel in that exact moment. 

"Right now, I 🥃still don't know 🧸which one I will choose between the world champion's number 1 and my number 63."

He added: "Every now and then I think about the f🌠act of being World Champion, but more than anything else I get excited when I think about the fact that I'm the fastest man in the world on a motorbike."

 

Francesco Bagnaia MotoGP race, Valencia MotoGP. 6 November
Francesco Bagnaia MotoGP race, Valencia MotoGP. 6 November

Bagnaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚia revealed that, unlike many of his peers, he can now legally ride a motorcycle on the road: "This summer I got my motorcycle ♐license. I was afraid of not remembering certain things, riding with two hands, because when you go slowly I spontaneously remove a hand and instead I had to stay all the time with my hands attached to the handlebars.”

He went into his childhood and how he first became obsessed with bikes: "As a child my father and my uജncle✅ rode motorcycles at an amateur level, my grandfather gave me the first three-wheeled motorcycle. 

“When I was five years old, the motocross bike I used to r𝐆ide in my grandfather's garden arrived and I destroyed everything. 

“I tried to touch with my knee on the ground, but it was not possible andℱ they understood that my direction was more on speed."

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