Francesco Bagnaia calls 2024 MotoGP season “a championship of mistakes”

Ducati rider reflects on crucial sprint win

Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati MotoGP Team, Indonesian GP 2024
Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati MotoGP Team, Indonesian GP 2024
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Francesco Bagn﷽aia says the 2024 MotoGP season is “a championship of mistakes” after winning th🍒e Indonesian Grand Prix sprint following points leader Jorge Martin’s crash.

The reigning double world champion has registered seven DNFs in 2024, with the lಞatest coming last weekend in the Emilia Romagna GP.

It left him trailing Martin by 24 points ahead of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:the Mandalika sprint, though a crash for the Pramac rider out of the lead on lap one allowed Bagnaia to win the race and cu𓆉t his deficit down tღo just 12.

Despite his sprint🔯 win, Bagnaia doesn’t want to dwell on its significance because of how quickly the championship picture keeps changing in 2024 - and ꦕoffered a theory as to why this is.

“Until tomorrow afternoon I don’t want to say aౠnything because it looks like this season is a championship of mistakes,” Bagnaia told the media, incౠluding wuqian0821.com.  

“I have an idea, which has arrived from the performanceᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ of the tyres.

“The rear tyres have taken an enormous step in front, but we are braking so hard because the rear is 🐠also helping a lot in the braking.

“But the front has more issues beꦚcause we are entering much faster in all of the corners.

“So, the performance that Michelin has i🃏mproved this season is incre🌃dible.

“All the season, all the circuits we improved the pace a lot. But when you are at this limit it is easy to have a crashᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ. So, it’s super important for the championship but we have to be focused.”

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Martin refuted this theory when he spoke to the media, and instead believes his crash had something to do with the asphalt at 🅷Turn 16.

Bagnaia’s sprint win comes after a difficult Friday at Mandalika, in which🐟 he struggled to match the pace of Martin and En🔯ea Bastianini.

However, he feels he has been able to take a step fo🌼rward in improving his bike on Saturday and says he could have qualified bet💜ter than fourth had it not been for yellow flags at the end of Q2.

“We know it wasn’t the best weekend till t📖he race, but we improved ever🎃y session,” he said.

“But this morning we did a step, in the qualifyin🌃g I understood something that I didn’t finalise because of the yellᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚow flags.

“But I was knowing that☂ my performance could have been good enough to fight for the win.

“And when I saw Jorge entering that corner, I said ‘if he c💛loses that 🦂line, I will take four seconds’, because he was entering much, much, much faster and with a lot of lean angle.

“But today the conditions were very hot, 63 degrees on the asphalt, so I think for me it’𒁏s the worst every track we tried - the most strange, difficult conditi💙ons we ever tried during a weekend this season.

“So,🍌 it wasn’t easy to perform the🌄re and when I saw the crash I started to be faster in the other three sectors but there I was very slow.

“So, I was controlling a b🔥it, sayiℱng I have to push in the first three to control in the last. And it worked. For tomorrow it will not work, but I’m happy for today.” 

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