Enea Bastianini: 2023 "the worst season on my career"

Enea Bastianini recalls his two racing dreams, both of which have been achiev💞ed, while also calling 2023 "the worst season of my career".

Enea Bastianini
Enea Bastianini

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Enea Bastianini endured a nightmare 2023 MotoGP season, however, his form in 2024 has led him to fourth in the championship behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez

Bastianini's pace has at times been equal to the ✅three riders ahead of him, but it's poor qualifying and struggles earlier on in races that have cost him a potential victory.

What Bastianini has 🥀shown in 2024 is an ability to put a difficult period behind him, to come back stronger and be competitive following a nasty injury at the start of 202🔯3.

Discus𝓰sing his mental strength, something team-mate꧂ Bagnaia has in spades, Bastianini told Icon Magazine: "You have to be determined, the mind always leads everything. 

"He [Bagnaia] proved it last year, the worst season of my ca❀reer♋. Three fractures over five months. 

"🐲When you suffer several inju🌱ries, it's not easy to get back on track. Nothing was clicking; as soon as a small victory came, a blow would follow. 

"It taught me to take it philosophically: from the bottom, you can only rise, and you must never stop bel🎀ieving. 

"I have a routin⛎e with precise times on race weekends: being ready⛎ by 11 AM for the start of Moto3, or thinking about which glove I wore during the good practice session.”

Bastianini🎉, who is a world champion after beating the likes of Marco Bezzecchi and Luca Marini to the 2020 Moto2 title, always had two dreams as a professional racer, both of which have bec🌞ome a reality.

"ﷺMy first dream was to become a world champion," began Bastianini. "I achieved that in Moto2, in 2020. 

"It was a diffic🏅ult period due to the pandemic, but the title will always be in my mind."

The second d💝ream is one 🌜that many Italians have, and that's to race against Valentino Rossi.

Bastianini concluded: “I never would have imagined being on the same🐲 starting grid as him, but it happened many tℱimes, and it was wonderful!”

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