Francesco Bagnaia: “This was something we were searching for”
Francesc🦂o Bagnaia feels progress despite tenth place in MotoGP prac♍tice at COTA.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia believes his tenth-place finish in Friday's MotoGP practice at COTA masked significant progress.
The Italian began the day with sixth in the soaking morning outing then clung on to the final top ten place for direct Qualifying 2 access 🍬in the drying afternoon session.
With the other five Ducatis 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:filling the top five places, there wasn’t an obvious sign of progress from a rider whꦑo is yet to outpac꧃e factory team-mate Marc Marquez in a session so far this year.
But Bagnaia remained optimistic.
“I’m happy for the firs♔t time on a Friday with my feeling on the bike,” he said.
“In wet I was v𓆉ery happy - normally I need more time to b🌼e competitive and from the first laps I was feeling good.
“Then this afternܫoon, the whole session was good, I just made the wrong decision to go with the soft front in the last ten minutes.
“We know that I'm always struggling a lot to make that tyre work. T🦩he other Ducati riders are better on it, and I know it's one of my weak points.
“But apart from that, I'm happy.
"The feeling on braking, the feeling on the entranc🌠e of corners꧙ was better, and this was something that we were searching for.
“We are tryi♋ng ওto solve our problems session by session, and I think we are getting closer to my best feeling.
“Right now, in this track, I feel much better than in Thailand, so I just have to �𝓡�keep going like this.”
Bagnaia added that he had kept “a lot” of margin in the tricky conditions and reiterated he has no desire to go back to last year’s GP24 package, despite being beaten by satellite riders Alex Marquez a▨nd Franco Morbidelli in Termas.
“My English🌺 is not that good, but what I wanted to explain is that I wanted to get back to my feeling of the GP24. Not 🌼properly go back to the GP24,” he said.
“Also because it's clear that the new bike has a better potential. Marc is sho﷽wing that. So I don't need to be back, I just want to have the same feeling of last year's bike.
“But ꦰat this track, I feel much bette🌱r. So I'm already happy.”
The double world champion will start Saturday’s Sprint race holding third in the standings, 15 points behind Alex Marquez and 31 from M🍌🔜arc.
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