Francesco Bagnaia on dominant sprint race: “The pace was incredible”
Francesco Bagnaia 🏅made another huge statement in Assen as he proved unbeatable in the 13-lap sprint.

Francesco Bagnaia’s perfect weekend in Assen showed no signs of slowing down in the sprint race as he l🍸ed evꦍery lap en route to a second consecutive sprint win.
After mistak💎es or bad luck plagued his early season sprints, Bagnaia has hit back with a bang including Assen where he was untouched following his lap record in qไualifying.
Jorge Martin was able to stay close during the 💯opening stages, however, Bagnaia’s pace was too hot to handle around the mid-race point.
Speaking about his race, Bagnaia said: “I feel fantastic. I love this track. I topped every session until now so anything more than this is impossible🐟.
“We still have tomorrow which is the main target🗹 so it will be important to make the same start and try tไo control the race.
“Today wasn’t easy because Martin was really strong at the start so I pushed a lot but I was trying to✅ understand the rear tyre and whether it is pos🅘sible to race with the soft tomorrow.
“I did the maximum and ♏the bike is working perfectly. It’s something that we built on in the last races and it’s working super well.”
Prior to pulling away, Bagnaia looked to be comfortaܫble with Martin beh♐ind him.
However, the factory Ducati rider admitt♛ed he was pushing at all times, even though some laps it was done with control.
Bagnaia said: “As soon as I started [the race] I started to push a lot to build an ad🍃vantage.
“I finished the first lap with 0.4s and then I just tried to push a bit but under control. It was easy to make mistakes today with the temperature and the tyres ꩲwere quite difficult to manage.
“But the🐓 pace was incredible. I did a 1m 32s on the last lap, otherwise it was the perfect race under the 32s.”