Francesco Bagnaia “spent hours analysing mistakes, worst races”
“On the left corners I miss something”
11 GP wins. 8 non-scores. 10 points.
Those were the key statistics from 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia’s 2024 MotoGP campaign, where the Italian won more GPs than all other riders combined but still came up ten points short of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin in the title battle.
ꦛ“I’ve spent hours analysing and re-watching m♛y mistakes and worst races from last year,” double champion Bagnaia confessed at this week’s Ducati Lenovo team launch.
Whi🐻le the cause of his non-scores varied, among the conclusions drawn by Bagnaia was the need for greater patience in some situations.
“I want always to arrive [as far] in front as possible. But I understood that💟 sometimes it's better to wait a bit. Bec෴ause the championship is long,” he said.
“It's true that you can gain and lose many points every weekendꦿ. And it's true that it wasn't always my fault.﷽
"But if in more than one situation, I was waiting [more patient], I was not c💝rashing and taking maybe 13 points [that] was enough to win [the title].”
While patience could have paid off during situations such as c🔯lashes with the Marquez brothers at Portimao (Marc) and Aragon (Alex), there were other occasions where Bagnaia fell on his own while riding ‘calmly’.
“It's difficult to predict sometimes, because I lost the front many times when I was calm. Like in Barcelona [Sprint] on the last lap, like in Malaysi☂a. So that's soಌmething that it's not easy to understand, but I will try.
“And [then], it's not that the team has to improve, but we have to i🔯mprove as a team in some situationsཧ.
"It’s something that has to come easily, just doing our job and not being under pre💙ssure somet✃imes, just working like normal and everything will be easier.”
Bagnaia also highlighted that he fell only nine times over the entire season, meaning he was ranked just 17th in terms of most falls last 🐎year.
The problem in terms of the title was that s🔥even of those accidents came during ra﷽ces (he retired due to a technical issue in the Le Mans Sprint).
“It's more - not to change the strategy, but to change something during the༒ races,” he confirmed.
“Because if we look, I'm one of the riders that crashed less last year, but [seven] out of nine were in the races. So I have t♎o improve that.”
“On the left corners, I miss something”
In pe𝓡rformance terms, Bagnaia was often untouchable last season, claiming dominant double victories at Assen, Austria and Barcelona.
However, the Italian r🐼evealed one area where he can still improve further.
“Riding style is difficult tไo change a lot, it’s a long process. But what I want to improve from the first test is to try to be [as] competitive in left corners as I am in the right corners,” he ꦜsaid.
“This is already a good thing becaus𓆉e on the right corners I feel very, very strong. [But] on the left corners I miss something. So I will try to be better on that."
That’s the pola🔯r opposite of new team-mate Marc Marquez, who is famously strong in left-hand corners and at anti-clockwise tracks such as♛ COTA, Sachsenring, Aragon and Phillip Island.
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