“My falls in the sprint have too, too much of an impact on the championship.”
This is not the first time that Pecco Bagnaia has crashed while leading a race, errors that do not always have an explanation for the Ducati rider, who is again left without points this season, taking him a little further from the lead. – he claims, – Jorge Martin is now ahead of Marc Marquez, who has already overtaken the leader of the Italian manufacturer in the overall standings.
“I spent an hour in the box trying to figure out what happened,” explained Bagnaia, who appeared before the media nearly an hour later than announced.
“It looks like entering the corner slower can lead to a crash. On the previous lap I made a small mistake in the same corner, but I entered the same corner, braked the same way…” said the Italian, as if he couldn’t find explanations for his fourth fall of the anus.
“I did well. When you fall, 90% of the time the rider is responsible. But in this case, he probably should have driven as fast as on the previous lap,” said the driver from Turin.
On a track where he had already fallen for the last two years and had never been on the podium, Pecco managed to lead the sprint after a fall when they were ahead of Raul Fernandez and Brad Binder, but on the last lap, when he had already If he had, he lost his bike at the fateful Turn 5, a mistake he hopes won’t affect him ahead of Sunday’s race with 25 points on the line.
Fall of Francesco Bagnai, Ducati Team
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“Looking ahead to tomorrow’s race, I understand that this accident will have little or no impact. But for the championship this is a lot, 12 lost points. In Jerez I was very fast on the podium; at Le Mans I was going to the podium the same way, here. The race is won, a lot of points are thrown away. Before coming here, I saw statistics that said that I added 14 points in the sprints, and Jorge Martin 50. In the Sunday races. I’m 77 and he’s 79. It affects a lot, so it’s too much,” he complained. “Tomorrow we will have to take the positives we can take from today,” he added.
After his fall, his fourth of the season, Pecco continued to be baptized.
“I’m very angry. When you break and there is a reason, it’s easier to accept. Tomorrow I will think about whether to lead the race, but chasing other riders always makes life difficult for you.”
“Today I was the fastest, the strongest and limited myself to skating, but that was not enough,” he emphasized.
Bagnaia knew how to manage the race and wait for his moment to take the lead and dominate.
“It was one of those victories that defines me,” he said, before admitting that it was “very strange that the top three fell,” referring to Fernandez and Binder.
Pecco, who had already said in the preview that the asphalt of the Barcelona circuit was “dangerous” and on Friday again criticized the condition of the track, attacked mercilessly: “On this track the grip is very low. The asphalt is bad. but no matter how much we say this in the Security Commission, they do not change it,” he concluded.
Fall of Francesco Bagnai, Ducati Team
Photo: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images