Bitterness in French sauce
Once again the Sprint race leaves a bad taste in the mouth Pecco Bagnaia. The world champion started from the second spot, on the front row, but it was forced to retire after a few lapsafter having been the author of one disastrous start which had dropped him to 14th place in the space of a handful of curves. Interviewed at Sky Sports MotoGP after the race, Bagnaia did not hide the fact that his debacle was due to problems with the bike. In fact, the champion from Chivasso ran the Sprint race with the ‘second’ bike, after the first had been damaged by a crash in the morning’s qualifying session.
Problematic ‘spare’ motorbike
“As a precaution we had to switch to Moto2 after the crash this morning – declared the Ducati #1 – but there was something that didn’t work. Already on the reconnaissance lap and during the race, in the first two laps, there was something strange. We will try to understand from the data. It wasn’t just the start, I couldn’t do several things and the bike was behaving in a strange way. I can’t go into details, obviously. The mechanics are doing an excellent job, together with the technicians”.
“We only saw the data and the bike behaved in a very particular way – the reigning world champion continued – even for mechanics and technicians it is difficult to understand what could have caused the problem. It shouldn’t happen, but sometimes it can happen.”.
Confidence for the GP
Looking ahead to Sunday’s GP however, a bit of optimism returns for Bagnaia: “For tomorrow the moto1 will be ready and we will be ready to fight. Our pace is one of the best. Usually we use the bike with which we rode the most over the weekend, but in our case we preferred to avoid having complications. I usually don’t have problems with the second bike, I can be fast with both“.
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