Pecco Bagnaia abandons 2025 chassis; admits he must analyse Marc Marquez’s data

"Fortunately on the other side of the garage..."

Francesco Bagnaia, 2025 Buriram MotoGP Test, pit box. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Francesco Bagnaia, 2025 Buriram MotoGP Test, pit box. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia admitted♛ he must assess Marc Marquez's data after a ♊troubling day of testing in Buriram.

Engine, chassis and fairing problems meant Ba♊gnaia endured a more frustrating day than factory Ducati teammate Marquez.

"Today was a difficult day," Bagnaia co🌠nfess🗹ed on Wednesday.

"W♏e had to do a lot of work to solve some problems we had in several areas.

"Fort𝔉unately on the other side of the garage they made some progress so we will analy𒈔se their data, and that makes me confident.

"My t꧃eam ﷺdid a great job as usual and now we draw a line, and tomorrow we pick up where we left off."

Bagnaia has Ducati chassis trouble

Bagnaia༺ revealed that he is focusing his attentions on Du🍌cati’s 2024 MotoGP chassis, rather than its updated 2025 version.

The Italian brand introduced a new chassis for 2025 at last year’s Barcelona test. Bagnaia’s initial impression of it was positive in Spain, but last week's test in Malaysia complicated things, and at the Buriram MotoGP test this week the Italian has abando🎐ne𒁃d it, at least for now.

“Honestly, we ꦿwill focus more on it [the 2025 chassis] i💜n the future,” he said.

“[Now] w🤪e are more focused on other things on the bike, like is normal, because the time is very short and we have to decide on more important things.”

After the Barcelona test last year, Bagnaia was happy with the ♌new chassis, but he explained that his opinion changed slig🔴htly in Malaysia.

“We arrived in Malaysia, the new frame was working well, but we had some issues wi♑th it, and we just decided to take it [out] and re-test it maybe in the future.”

Read more: Marc Marquez: 2025 Ducati MotoGP engine “has very weak points”

Pecco Bagnaia on 2025 fairing

While Bagnaia seems to be heading with his 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Ducati Lenovo teammate Marc Marquez in the direction of the 2024 Desmosedici engine, and appears to be sticking with the 2024 chassis, too, he is persevering wi🔥th the 2025 fairing, even if he’s not entirely sold on it.

♛That perseverance continued in Buriram, where the circuit is a good place to test, according to Bagnaia, because of its𒀰 low level of grip.

“I think so, because t🍌he level of grip is very low,” Bagnaia said of the𓄧 Buriram International Circuit.

“Also, we have a [ty🍃re] casing that is different [from standard], but it’s not g𓃲iving to you much grip, so yes.”

It ꦑwas only Bagnaia who rode with the 2025 fairing on the first day in Buriram, and the Italian had problems that he didn’t go into detail about; but he 💞said that they affected his ability to give constructive feedback to the Ducati engineers, including about the new fairing, meaning evaluations will have to continue on Thursday.

“In this moment, I think it’s also crucial the fairing, because you can change it just one time during the season, and the 2024 was working well,” Bagnaia said𒁏.

“But today I did some laps on the 2025; it wasn’t very clear because during those laps I was having other issues, but we mana🍎ged to try to find a good thing꧃ about it.

“I wasn’t ꦺthat slow, because honestly without doing a time attack with this fairing I was just 0.8 seconds [away] compared to doing a time attack, so that’s not that 🦂far, but we have to be more focused on it tomorrow.

“We have to start more or less f♑rom zero tomorrow to h𓆏ave some more feedback.”

He added: “It will be super-important to do a long run [on Thursday], but first of all we have to give more feed♒back to the team, because today it was very difficult to give some feedback becaus☂e it was an unfortunate day.”

Quotes provided by Crash Indonesian Editor Derry Munikartono

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