Pecco Bagnaia says his battle with Marc Marquez on lap one of the Mot🌺oGP Americas Grand Prix sprint was “the first time I felt I had a chance” to challenge him in 2025.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Factory Ducati rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pecco Bagnaia has not had the start to the season expected, after coming off a 2024 in whi🐷ch he won 11 grands prix and narrowly missed out on a third world title.

Starting the Americas GP weekend 31 points behind team-mate Marquez in the standings after two rounds, Bagnaia could onl🔥y qualify fifth-best of the Ducatis i🌄n sixth on the grid.

But for the first time in 2025, Bagnaia led a race - albeit briefly - after battling hard with Marquez in the first sequence of corners 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:in the sprint, before eventually finishing third.

Commenting on this battle, Bagnaia told the official MotoGP website: “It was great, because 𒀰for the first time I felt I had a chance because we worked a lot - I worked a lot -꧂ and we are getting closer.

“I know that the way will be long, but unluckily ✤I lost a bit of feeling in the first part of the last test🔯 and in the first two races.

“So, to keep the same pace is no🍬t easy but w❀e are working on it and we are finding it.”

Marquez ultimately won the 10-lap sprint to maintain his 100% record in 2025, while Bagnaia 💦was 1.918s adrift in third.

Bagnaia, as he has done in all races so far this season, found himself quickly cast away from Marc Marquez and Alex Marquez befo🔴r🀅e closing in on the latter by the chequered flag.

Spending the COTA weekend so far working on improving his feeling under braking on his GP25, Bagnaia says he must also find somethin𒐪g to be faster in theಞ early laps of races.

“It was great from my𓄧 side,” Bagnaia added on his launch from sixth to fir🍎st at the start.

“I did a very good start and when I saw I was on the inside I just tried toꦇ try.

“And the attempt went well. So, I’m happy about it, but I just need to work more for the first laps because in laps two🦩, three and four I lost♚ too much time.

“I lost 1.5s to Alex, and this was too much. Then I was able to have a great pace, similar to them, but I just needed the first laps to have mo♏re of a chance to fight.”

Now 36 points behind Marc Marquez in🍨 the championship, Bagnaia is expecting his Ducati team-mate ha𒅌ve something extra in the grand prix.

However, he belie꧃ves he can take the fight to Alex Marquez for the first time this season.

“Tomorrow will be very long,” he said.

“I think the rear ꧙tyre choice maybe will not be the soft because the𓂃 tyre consumption was quite huge.

“So let’s see. But Marc maybe today was controlling a bit, so let’s see tomorrow, but a battle betw♌een me and Alex will be possible.

“So, we will try the maximum, we will try to fight against them and see if we can ma𝔉ke another step in front.”