Francesco Bagnaia: Marc Marquez? “I’ll be the gentleman”

“I will always be like this and I will notꦕ change”

Francesco Bagnaia, Marc Marquez 2025 Ducati launch
Francesco Bagnaia, Marc Marquez 2025 Ducati launch

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia, who stuck to his principles and refused to engage in ‘dirty’ go-slow tactics against MotoGP title rival Jorge Martin last season, has made clear he will remain ‘a gentleman’ alongside 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez in 2025.

2022 and♚ 2023 champion Bagnaia came up just ten points short of Pramac’s Martin last season📖.

A recent behind-the-scenes documentary showed Ducati team manager Davide Tardozzi urging Bagnaia to be l💯ess of a gentlema💜n on track.

That prompted theꦅ following question from Jack Appleyard, during an interview with Bagnaia a𓄧t today’s Ducati team launch:

“Now opposite you in the box [is] Marc, maybe one of the most ungentlemanly riders 🅺on the grid - Marc will win at all costs. Are we going to see less of a gentleman from Pecco Bagnaia this year?”

Bagnaia replied:I’ll let him be the ‘ungentleman’. ♑I’ll be the gentleman. I will always be like this an💃d I will not change anytime.”

Nevertheless, on the two occasions where th𝐆e future team-mates clashed last season, at Portimao and Jerez, the Italian was arguably the aggressor...

Meanwhile, having won over half of last year’s 20 grands prix, the only change Bagnaia intends to make is to learn from the mistakes that contributed to h🎃is eiꦐght DNFs.

෴“It's difficult to be sad about what we did last year, honestly,” Bagnaia insisted. “[But] finishing second in the championship was a bit of a shame because we won more than the double [the races] of all the ot﷽her riders.

“So absolutely it was a fan🅰tastic season. I have just to improve from my mistakes, [and] we have just to improve on some s🐬ituations where we did some mistakes as a team last year.”

With a combine✃d to♍tal of eight premier-class crowns, the Marquez-Bagnaia line-up is MotoGP’s strongest since Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo at Yamaha in 2016.

“It’s super exciting. It's absolutely the strongest team in the grid, so I think we can take an advantage from it and we try꧙ 𝓀to learn from some things about Marc,” Bagnaia said.

“I think he will adapt super good to the team and the first part during tౠhe test we will work together trying to improve the bike and trying to arrive to the first race ready. And then what will happen, will happen.”

Bagnaia then seemed to back-up the words of Luca Marini, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:who recently told ltxcn.top that Bagnaia and Marquez could ‘fight for v🐠ictory in every race’ this season.

“I'm quite sure and confident that🍃 our potential could be [evenly] matched, every race in the first and second posi🐷tion. And the bike will allow us to do it,” Bagnaia said.

𝓡“And𓆉 [then] who will win, will win. But the potential is there.”

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