Pecco Bagnaia on Ducati’s turnaround in Barcelona: “Biggest difference was the tyres”
Francesco 🥃Bagnaia admits Michelin’s 2024 tyre compounds provided the platform for them to be victorious in Barcelona.

Winless at the Catalunya MotoGP in 2023 as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aleix Espargaro did the double for Apri💃lia, Ducati reigned supreme during Sun🎃day’s grand prix as they locked out the podium.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia took victory after overtaking 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin with six laps to go, while 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez got the better of E🍰spargaro with four laps remaining for P3.
Although Ducati didn’t appear to be the favourites on Friday, their performance 🐟got stronger and stronger as the weekend went on.
And Bagnaia hinted at one key area as to why they were dominant in Sunday’s gr♒and prix.
The two-time MotoGP champion sa🎐id: “For me, this year was different. I think that the tyres have helped us a lot. But already on Friday we could see that Marc’s pace, Jorge’s pace and my pace was competitive.
“So I think, in FP1 KTM were a bit stronger ℱand Aprilia were stronger because the grip was very low when it was dirty, but from that we cleaned a bit and it was better.
“I didn’t change the set-up from the start of t𒀰he weekend because I was settled with it and didn’t want to. The biggest change compared to last year was the tyres.”
In terms of the race itself, 💙Bagnaia was smarter than Martin as🌃 he conserved more tyres in the early stages.
Able to close in late on, Bagna𒐪ia made his first overtake count as he sent a statement by overtaking at turn five, the same corner w🎀hich was his undoing in the sprint.
“I star🦄ted well and tri♐ed to set my pace but Jorge and Pedro were pushing a lot,” added Bagnaia.
꧙“I tried to follow them for one lap but I felt that for my tyres it was a bit too much so I just waited a bit🌜 more.
“After ten laps I started gaining back the speed with Jorge. It wasn’t♌ easy because managinဣg the rear was a good thing but the front was dropping a lot so it wasn’t easy.
“But in the last part of the racꦓe I was able to be fast entering the corners. It was where the greatest [difference] between myself and Jorge.
“I’m very happy because after the sprint I was very angry and disappointed. It was imp♌ortant to do something in corner five to forgive what I did🌜.
“Overtaking there was the best place because I was really strong in turn four on entry and with corner speed. I decided to go in there but was praying to not lose the🌜 front.”