Injured Enea Bastianini considers pulling out of Spanish MotoGP | Francesco Bagnaia: “I am struggling”
The factory Ducati rider passed a medical check-up to compete this weekend in Jerez after suffering a broken shoulder blad🦄e in the first-ever sprint, which has left him wit🥃hout any points and sidelined from every race since.
But he struggled through Friday practice,🎃 finishing 20th, and will decide🦩 on Saturday whether he is physically able to race.
“For sure I'd like to continue, but I also have to be realistic,” Bastianin🙈i said. “After six or seven 𒆙laps I was really fatigued, so it will be difficult to think I can finish the long race.
“It was a challenꦺging day, but I expected it given my condition. Tomorrow morning the goal is to get on track for Free Practic🌳e and see if I can continue with qualifying and then the Sprint in the afternoon.”
Factory Ducati teammate and reigning MotoGP champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia endured a difficult Friday for d꧂ifferent reasons.
He was left stranded outside of the top 10 on Friday and💝 facing the prospect of tackling Q1 on Saturday.
“Last year my feeling on this track was unbelievable but today, I was struggling to find consistency,” Bagnaia saജid.
“I am struggling with the front feeling of the bike. We’re working🤡 on it. We have an idea for the solution - but let’s see.
“I ex෴pected more today from me and my bike but the worst thing is t𒊎hat we are outside the top 10, from P2.
“But we have tomorrow morning to improve, to understand our feeling. Sector 1 and 2 are okay, but 3 and 4 💙is where I am losing a lot of time.”
Bagnaia said about tweaks made to h𒉰is Desmosedici: “We did not make big changes. It’s true that we have an hour but it’s not so much time. For tomorrow, it’s important to improve that feeling.
“Last year we were very competitive in Sector 3 but today it was difficult t൲o enter, I was going wide, so it’s different to last year.
“The balance of the bike is different so maybe this ꧑is the reason. Maybe we have to change the setting.
“We are arriving from a♎ circuit which are very long. This one is different. The new bike has a difference balance and we must find a solution.
“The grip 🐽is 🦂the only thing, at the moment, that is okay.”
Ducati will be charged with somehow reversing Bagnaia’s fortunes overnight, as he attempts to overhaul Mooney VR46 rider Marco Bezzecchi’s 11-point advantage at the top of the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP standings.
“I am not so worried because I’m sure that my team will help me, and I’ll do the maximu﷽m to adapt to the bike,” Bagnaia said.
“With this type of w🍌ork you don’t have time to adapt to the bike.
“In this mꦜoment, for my riding style, the front feeling is too important so we must find a solution.”
He assessed his chances in the sprint race: “It will be important not to be followed because many🔜 riders are competitive.
“In th🥃is track for a sprint race, starting from t🅘he front is important.
“It looks like the spri🌠nt race will not be with the soft rear✨ tyre. But we will discover more tomorrow. Let’s see.
“It’s more important to start from th♐e front💞 than to have a soft tyre for the sprint, so let’s see.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Ame♛rican sports, to football, to F1.
