Francesco Bagnaia: “Bad results can help understand the direction” ahead of Aragon MotoGP

Francesco Bagnaia pledges to keep "working" on GP25 feeling, but "useless💯"🧜 to compare last year’s bike to this year’s bike.

Francesco Bagnaia, 2025 Aragon MotoGP
Francesco Bagnaia, 2025 Aragon MotoGP

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia may have experienced his second podium-less MotoGP event in a row at Silverstone but the Italian꧒ was not alone in facing🔯 difficulties with the GP25 at the British track.

Team-mate Marc Marquez salvaged a close podium from his most difficult weekend as a factory Ducati rider, while Fabio di Giannantonio dropped from third in the Sprin꧋t to tenth at the chequered flag of the grand prix.

However, speaking on the eve of this weekend’s A༺ragon round, VR46 rider di Giannantonio felt the restarted race masked his potential.

“Silverstone, I think, has been quite a turning point fo💯r us, because we really understood many, many things from this bike, finally,” di Giannantonio said on Thursday.

“I think here we can start with a proper setu⛦p, in a proper way the weekend.

“I hope that here we have all 🍨the cards to playꦚ, to make a stable weekend and try to perform like we want.”

Interestingly, Dig💯gia appeared to back up Bagnaia’s comments about the front-end ꦜfeeling of the GP25, describing it as a kind of "filter".

“With the moves that we've done in Silverstone, we've improved this feeling. And I was also fasteওr compared to the 𒐪previous rounds,” he said.

“For sure, this bike 𒊎has a kind of filter with the front.

“But we have done just seven rounds. I think we have plenty of races ahead of us and plenty of tests t🎀o improve it.”

Bagnaia finished sixth in the Silverstone Sprint before crashing out of the grand prix, costing him further ground to second iꦅn the standings, Alex Marquez.

Although acknowledging𒆙 Aragon will be another weekend of “working” on his current issues, Bagnaia underlined that seeking to exactly replicate the GP24’s front with the GP25😼 is “useless”.

“I want to take a step b♔ac꧃k and try not to compare last year’s bike to this year’s bike, because it's something useless and it's not helping also the engineers,” explained Bagnaia.

“So we will try to solve it with our bike, try different things and see if we can think out of the [box], if we can f🦩ind somethi𒈔ng.”

Did the problems suffered by Marc Marquez a🔴t Silverstone provide the team with new clues?

“It's true that Silverstone was critical for both [riders] and for the first time, for M🎃arc,” Bagnaia replied. 

“It’s helping for the team [to have more data], but it's not a good✤ thing because we want to be at the front. 

"[But] also, bad resu𝓀lts sometimes can help to understand the direction, and maybe we found something.”

Nonetheless, Bagnaia, like many riders, confirmed he would pick front-end feel over rear grip if forced to c🐠hoose.

“Absolutely, [to] have a lot of confidence with the front. I need to have a sharper front, more [sensitive] front and I can sit back with a rear that is not so grippy, but was always like this and now just have to underst✃and what to do with this bike to have the same [feeling].”

Although Bagnaia endured a nightmare 2024 Aragon event - struggling on the dirty surface then colliding with Alex Marquez while on course for a podium𓃲 in the grand prix - it was also the ven🅠ue of his debut MotoGP victory over Marc Marquez in 2021.

“That’s a race that I will always remember, my first win in MotoGP, so it will always be part of me and I would like to repeat it, the same fight with the sam꧂e result would be fantastic,” he said.

“But let's see, we know fast Marc is everyw🌳here, but [especially] on this track and we just need to work to find back m🦋y feeling.

“It is what it is and I need just to focus on the posit🅺ives and try to take the motivation from also re-watching races and think about what happened here.”

Sunday’𒊎s eighth round of the season will also be followed by a rare day of official tes🌳ting.

“[it’s] super important, more l💫aps we can do, more𝓰 laps of testing with items we can have is just better for us,” Bagnaia said.

Monday should also see Bagnai꧙a get time to try the latest Ducati chassis, already in use with Marc Marquez.

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