Pecco Bagnaia on Ducati’s turnaround in Barcelona: “Biggest difference was the tyres”
Francesco Bagnaia admits Michelin’s 2024 tyre compounds provided the platform for them to be victorious in Barcel🦩ona.

Winless at the Catalunya MotoGP in 2023 as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aleix Espargaro did the double for Aprilia, Ducati reigned supreme during Sunday’s grand prix as they locked out the pod♏ium.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia took victory after overtaking 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin with six laps to go, while 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez got the 🍒better of Espargaro with four laps remaining for P3.
Although Ducati didn’t appear to be the favourites on Friday, their performa♔nce got stronger and stronger as the weekend went on.
And Bagnaia h🍌inted at one key area as to why they were dominant in Sunday’s grand prix.
The two-time MotoGP champion said: “For me, this year was different. I think tha♊t the tyres have helped us a lot. But already on Friday we cꦚould see that Marc’s pace, Jorge’s pace and my pace was competitive.
“So I think, in FP1 KTM were a bit st𝐆ronger and Aprilia were stronger because the grip was very low when it was dirty, but from that we cleaned a bit and it was better.
“I didn’t change the set-up from the start of the weekend because▨ I w🐬as settled with it and didn’t want to. The biggest change compared to last year was the tyres.”
In terms of the race itself, B💜agnaia was smarter than Martin as he conserved more tyres in the early stages.
Able ♏to close in late on, Bagnaia made his first overtake count as he sent a statement by overtaking at turn five, th𒀰e same corner which was his undoing in the sprint.
“I started well and tried to set my pace but Jor🔥ge and Pedr﷽o were pushing a lot,” added Bagnaia.
“I tried to follow them for one lap but I felt that for my tyres it was 💟a bit too much so I just waited a bit more.
“After ten laps I starteꦜd gaining back the speed with Jorge. It wasn’t easy because managing the rear was a good thing but the front was dropping a lot so it wasn’t eaღsy.
“But in the last part of the rac🦂e I 🍃was able to be fast entering the corners. It was where the greatest [difference] between myself and Jorge.
“I’m very happy because after the sprint I was very angry and disappointed. It was importan🐈t to do som💯ething in corner five to forgive what I did.
“Overtaking 💞there was ෴the best place because I was really strong in turn four on entry and with corner speed. I decided to go in there but was praying to not lose the front.”