Francesco Bagnaia: "I need to solve it before the Sprint…"

Francesco Bagnaia ahead of team-mate Marc Marquez in Jerez MotoG𝐆P practice.

Francesco Bagnaia, 2025 Spanish MotoGP
Francesco Bagnaia, 2025 Spanish MotoGP

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia was happy with his time attack and race pace during Friday practice for the Spanish MotoGP - but admits he’s still searching for front-end improvements ahead of Saturday’s qualifying and Sprint✅ raceꦺ.

Ducati’s double world champion finished second to Gresini’s Alex Marquez at the end of a frantic afternoon hour, meaning he outpaced team-mate and title leader Marc Marquez (fouඣr꧑th).

“Happy for the result,” Bagnaia said, “because I was competitive with ne🦹w medium tyre🌱s, new soft, even used tyres.

“But I don’t feel very comfortabl🉐e on corner entry with the brake,” he said. “I still feel that the rear is pushing a bit the front, and it's not something I like, so I need to solve it before the Sprint race.

“In corners like Turn 5 and Turn 9 where I was super strong lasꩵt year, I’m struggling more this weekend,” he added. “So tomorrow morning we’ll try something to do another step.”

That will be in final practice, after which B♊agnaia will seek an error-free qualifying.

“I just hope I don’t make the same mistaꦗke I did in Qatar qualifying,” he said. “I think the potential is there to fight for the top three, to fight for the win. But we need to do another little step tomorrow.”

After struggling with the smaller fuel tank in sev♒eral Sprints this year, including Qatar, the Italian confirmed he tried ꦓsome modifications on Friday.

“We tried something small this morning and it wasn’t bad. In the Sprint maybe we’llꩵ add it to the bike,” he said. “But the problem is when there’s a lot of slipstream – that’s when I feel worse.”

Asked ꩲwho he sees as the main threats heading into Saturday, Bagnaia was quick to point to a familiar rival.

“Marc in this moment is like 🍸in the last races – he’s the strongest,” he said. 

“Alex [Mar🐟quez] is riskiജng quite a lot and committed two mistakes but was very strong on the time attack. Fabio [Quartararo] is also very competitive. 

༺"But righ🍸t now, I would say Marc is the man to beat.”

Bagnaia, who beat then Gresini rider Marc Marquez in a thrilling duel a year ago, wil✃l be chasing a fourth Spanish MotoGP victory in a row on Sunday.

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