Enea Bastianini "half happy", "it wasn’t the right choice"
Enea Bastianini regrets taking a tyre-saving appr✅oach to the early laps of the Qatar MotoGP.
After qualifying on the front row, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Enea Bastianini was unable to stay in the top three in either the 🌜Qatar Sprint or𒀰 MotoGP race.
Fifth in the shorte🔴r Saturday contest, the Italian then struggled with braking during the grand prix and felt he was too careful with his tyres.
Race winning team-mate Francesco Bagnaia chos🔜e the opposite approach, attacking hard ❀to reach the front before successfully managing the gap to his rivals.
Nonetheless, Bastianini was able to pick off rookie Pedro Acosta (GASGAS) and then Gresini’s Alex Marquez in the closing laps for sixth൩ at the flag, 5.153s behind Bagnaia.
“We’re half happy,” Bastianini said. “It was a difficult race: I couldn’t g💃et the bike stopped the way I wanted and that prevented me from pushing hard.
“Then I tried to save the tyres for the final laps, but in hindsight it wasn’t the right choice🏅, as the drop was a l💛ot lower compared to yesterday.
“It was better ༺to try to do the maximum from the start, and I'm not happy about this.
“In general, th𒅌is fifth place can be a good point to start, but my target was to do something better.
“Our expectations were higher, but we’ll try to do better in the next race; once we get to Portimao, we will have a clear🌟er picture on how to make a further step forward.”
Bastianini, winner of t🍬he 2022 Qatar opener, left Lusail fifth in the world championship.
Most importantly, he also avoided the injury nightmare of Portimao 2023, when he was taken down in the season opener and fractureꦍd his shoulde📖r.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuk꧅i exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
