Australian MotoGP: Francesco Bagnaia on future teammate Enea Bastianini - “he will have to learn”
Bastianini won a three-way battle with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin to earn a spot in the factory Ducati team, and he will be alongside Bagnaia in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2023 MotoGP rider line-up.
The saga has become even more dra🌳matic because Bagnaia edged a photo-finish between them in Misano, before Bastianin💧i won in Aragon.
Bagnaia, two points adrift of Fabio Quartararo in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP standings with three races left ahead of the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Australian MotoGP, could yet be the beneficiarไy of Ducati team orders issued to the likes of Bastianini, who has so far been eager to battle.
“Enea is a great guy, a great talent, ve🦂ry competitive and very fast,” Bagnaia said about his fellow Italian.
“He will have to learn how to work in a factory team, like I had to do t💜his year.
“At the start it was not🌃 so easy, but it’s something you have to do.
“You have more responsibility. It is not so easy.
“But he is quite smart. He will know what to do.”
Bagnaia stepped up to Ducati’s MotoGP factory team after two seasons with Pramac Racing. Bastianini is in his second year with Gresini R𝐆acing but has been chosen by Ducati to step up nextꦅ year, ahead of Miller and Martin.
Bagnaia: "I tried to analyse why I was crashing"
Bagnaia is battling for a maiden championship - he has won six times this year, compared to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo’s three, but has also crashed a remarkable fiv♔e times.
“When I was crashing before the summer break, it was because I was thinking in the wrong way🌸,” hꦺe explained.
“I was saying: ‘OK I will relax’ then I crashed.
“I tried to analyse why I was crashing, I triedꦍ to understand with my trainer and the people close to me why I was making mistakes.
“Trying to understand how to do better.”
Bagnaia wasn’t on the podium in the opening five races of the season but roared into serious title contention with a four-race win💃ning streak at Quartararo’s expense.
“At the start the bike was not so competitive,” he said. “I was struggling a 🧔lot. We needed a lot of time to im🎃prove.
“෴Finally, when 🌌we were back in Europe, we started again. From that moment we were always in front.
“I was always winning or on the podium but I also committed mista𓃲kes.
“I still lost a lot of points with mistakes.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade coverinꦦg everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
