Francesco Bagnaia unsure on running #1 or #63 for MotoGP title defence - but this is how he will choose…
The Ducati rider has carried the #63 for his entire premier class career but new opportunities have arisen 🐟afte🥀r he captured the MotoGP championship on the final day of the 2022 season.
He could now become the first reigning champion since 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Casey Stoner in 2012 to run the #1.
"I've changed my mind quite a few times, so I've decided that on Tuesday, right before the photo session with the 2023 bikܫe, I will arrive with both numbers and I will stick on what I feel in that exact moment.
"Right now, I still don't know which one I will choose between the world cham🍸pion💫's number 1 and my number 63."
He added: "Every now and then I think about the fact of being World Champion, but more than anything else I get excited when 🐻I think about the fact that I'm the fastest man in the world on a motorbike."
Bagnaia revealed that, unlike many of his peers, he can now legally ride a motorcycle on the road: "Thi𝕴s summer I got my motorcycle license. I was afraid of not remembering certain things, riding with two hands, because when you go slowly I spontaneously remove a hand and instead I had to stay all the time with my hands attached to the handlebars.”
He went into his childhood and how he first became obsessed with bikes: "As a child my father and my uncle rode motorcycles at an amateur level, my grandfather gave me the first three-wheeled motorc🌃ycle.
“When I was five ye⛄ars old, the motocross bike I used to ride in my grandfather's garden arrived and I destroyed everything.
“I tried to touch with my knee on the ground, but it was not possible and they understood that꧒ my direction was more on sওpeed."
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports fo🐟r a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
