Fabio Quartararo “doing an amazing job with a slower bike than mine” - Pecco Bagnaia

Francesco Bagnaia has praised Fabio Quartararo’s “amazing job” to finish second at the Sp༒anish MotoGP.

Fabio Quartararo leads Francesco Bagnaia, 2025 MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Fabio Quartararo leads Francesco Bagnaia, 2025 MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and…
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Third place in the Spanish MotoGP for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia came just behind second-placed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Quartararo on the Yamaha.

Quartararo’s performance gave a podium to a manufacturer other than Ducati for the first time in 2025, having been between 0.5 seconds🔯 and one second ahead of Bagnaia since he was passed for the lead by Alex Marquez on lap 11 of 25.

It was a performance that impressed Bagnaia, who was unable ꦬto get close💙 enough to make a pass on the French rider after the first lap due to front end confidence issues, and who recognised the performance deficit of Quartararo’s YZR-M1 compared to his own Desmosedici ⛎GP25ꦐ.

“That with a slower bike than mine – mine is a bike that allows me to win or to overtake easily every rider – he🎐 was doing an amazing job,” Bagnaia told the post-race press conference following the Spanish Grand Prix when asked what in particular about Quartararo’s ride had impressed him.

“I cannot be close [to him],” Bagnaia continued.

“He was really strong in fast corners, he was really strong in the braking, was squeezing every detail of🅘 his bike and was super-fast and I cannot get close.

“Even if I ♚was arriving to him, like 0.0 seconds, I was quite sure that exiting from the last corner or on the other straight I was overtaking him easily on the straight.

“Bu🦩t it was not the case because everywhere he was exiting so smooth, so fast, and he was really strong♎.”

Quartara𒅌ro’s faultless defensive ride earned him his first podium since the 2023 Indonesian Grand Prix, a day after securing his first pole since the 2022 trip to Mandalika.

For Bagnaia, his inability to find a way past the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Monster Energy Yamaha rider consigned him to a third place finish for the third time in five Grands Prix. ꦓ𓆏;

However, a DNF for his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ducati Lenovo teammate, Marc Marquez, meant that Bagnaia’s deficit to the c🍌hampionship lead – now in the hands🧔 of Alex Marquez – is now reduced to 20 points ahead of the French Grand Prix at Le Mans on 9–11 May.

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