Francesco Bagnaia spells out cause of Aragon Sprint woes | Grid “very dangerous”
Francesco Bagnaia: “It's not some🍸thing about our bike, our te🧸am or me.”
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia didn’t mention the word ‘tyre’ but the Italian ruled just about everything else out when explaining the cause of his lacklustre Aragon MotoGP Sprint race.
After a poor start on the dirty side of the track, the reigning MotoGP champion and title leader d🙈ropped to sixth place.
He then swiftly repassed Miguel Oliveira and Alex Marquez to sit behind the podium trio of Marc Marquez, Jorge Martin and Pedro Acosta by lap 2 o𒅌f 11.
But instead of closing on the KTM ahead, Bagnaia𒉰 began losing ground, fading to ninth place by the che🐻quered flag.
Bagna💙ia made a ‘second-time’ gesture to his Michelin engineer as he returned to the Ducati garage and, picking his words carefully, confirmed to MotoGP.com:
“[It was the] same thing that happened yesterday morning. Out of our control. It𝄹's not something about our bike, our team or me.
"It’s something that can happen. The thing is it’s 😼happened twice in the same weekend. So I really ﷽hope that for tomorrow it will be better.”
He later added༺: "As soon as I got to turn five, I immediately understood that something🐼 wasn’t right, and then things kept getting worse.
"It was a tough race because Iဣ was struggling on both corner entry and mid-corner and I wꦜas lapping really slow.
"I believe that, realistically, I could have battled with Martín, as Marc (Márquez) seems to be able t🌞o make the difference on all of us in three areas of the track."
Those apparent front tyre woes followed a scary, sideways start, which Bagnaia put down to the dirty con🦋dition of the grid. He j♔oined the likes of Aleix Espargaro and Alex Rins in criticising the lack of track cleaning.
“I 🗹was starting from the dirty side of the grid. In the Safety Commission yesterday, I clearly asked, ‘Please clean the track and the starting grid’ because if not it could be a problem. An🍌d it was a problem," he said.
“I was just lucky that Alex [Marquez] had good reflexes behind me bꦛecause he was able to not hit 𝐆me, but it was very dangerous.”
Late on Saturday, MotoGP informed the teams that: 'Following discussions today, it is confirmed that there will be a practice start session on the grid after the Warm Up on Sunday.'
Meanwhile, Marc Marquez went on to win his first Sprint race as a Ducati rider, having led every session he has taken part in this weekend💛.
“He's doing 4-5 degrees more [lean angle] than me in some corners without losing the front, so this is increꦅdible,” Bagnaia said. “He’s the only one able to do it, [with] his riding style.
“Just he is doin🀅g it. No other Ducati riders. But we already know what Marc can do. So for tomorrow, we wi🌳ll try a step."
Bagnaia’s woes mean the MotoGP title lead has now seesawed back in favour of Jorge Martin, by three points, 🍎heading into Sunday’s full-length grand prix.
Due to high temperatures and signs of blistering ﷽on the new Aragon asphalt during the Sprint, Michelin announced on Saturday night that 'the Soft rear tyre will not be one of the compounds available tomorrow' for th♊e grand prix.
The soft was used by all riders on Saturday afternoon, with everyone now expected to race the medi🌱um rear (again with a medium front) on Sunday.
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