Francesco Bagnaia explains COTA Sprint misery
“We will change just the rear tyre and I think everything wil🦂l be💝 okay.”
Reigning MotoGP champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia followed up his ‘best Friday of the season’ with second place 💖in Saturday practice at COTA, then fourth in qualifying.
But there was drama even b𓃲efore the start of the afternoon Sprint when crew chief Cristian Gabarrini was seen sprinting to the grid with a new front fender, which was duly installed and seems not to have been an issue.
Nonetheless, Bagnaia’s race began to unravel as soon as the red lights went out with the front wheel of t♒he Italian’s Desmosedici lurching into theও air, and rear spinning, as he slipped back to tenth place after the opening turns.
Bagnaia struggled to make an impression thereafter, only passing Franco Morbidelli on lap 7of 10 and then Raul Fernandez for eighth place on the last lap. Bagnaia set the 13th fastest lap and took a long look at his rear tyre after steꩵpping off the factory GP24 in pit lane.
Like a💟ll his rivals, Bagnaia chose the medium front and soft rear tyre combination for the Sprint.
However, Bagnaia had been unable to get anywhere near the pace he had managed with those tyres in practice. Team-mateꦗ Enea Bastianini, wh𓂃o finished sixth, spoke of similar rear grip issues.
“At the start the rear started to spin, then I had a wheelie, so I had to retake the clutch and was in seventh position. Then in corner 2 I had to brake a lot because Jack had some movements, so anoth🍸er t𒅌hree riders overtook me,” Bagnaia explained.
“Then my feeli𓂃ng wasn’t the same as the morning. The rear grip was much less. We have to check on the data to understand why.”
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But he t🌠hen spelt out that a new tyre should solve h🌞is woes.
“Tomorrow we wilღl not change anything on the setting because my feeling was too worse to say the problem was the setting. So we will change just the rear tyre and I think everything will be okay.
“The target and pace before t🌞he race was to fight for the podium. The target tꦑomorrow will be the same.”
Bagnaia’s Sprint misery mean he has slipped 39 points behind title leader Jorge ꧂Martin, who started the race tw🀅o places behind him on the grid but was able to join Maverick Vinales and Marc Marquez on the podium.
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