Pecco Bagnaia’s season has not gone to plan yet he remains within t꧟ouching distance of the championship leader.

The factory Ducati rider is 20 points behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez, who sits atop the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP standings. He trails his teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez by 19 points after five rounds.

But it was Marc’s two costly crashes, in Texas then last week in Jerez, which have opened the door to his title riva🗹𒀰ls.

Bagnaia, despite failing to get to grips with the GP25 this year, still has hope if he can emerge from last Monday’s test with some improve🐓ments.

Pecco Bagnaia urged to strike after Marc Marquez errors

“Luckily for Pecco, Marc has made two huge mistakesဣ in races. So it doesn’t look that bad, at all.

“If Pecco can find something [in testing]... I know everyone [was] tes🃏ting🥂 so could potentially find something.

🥂“But I believe Pecco. He is missing something in corner entry.

“It’s a balance thing. You don’t experiment too much in race weekends. You are racing on a S𒊎aturday, and on a Friday afternoon you’ve got to go to the abs🌄olute limit.

“There is so much pressure on rider🌊s over the weekend, that they don’t want to experiment.

“[The test was] about exper♐imenting and trying something.

“If Pecco can find that missing piece, after the two big mistake💧s by Marc, then suddenly we have a championship on o๊ur hands!

“We have got a champions💮hip anyway because, of course, Alex is leading by a point.

“We need Pecco ꦦin that battle. We need him winning, and ableℱ to make passes.

“He has basically said ‘I am not in that situation, I can’t💧 make passes’.”

Bagnaia finished on the podium in Spain a week ago, then emerged optimistic f🌌rom the ꧒test on Monday.

Although he stopped short of confirming which parts he had tested,💧 Bagnaia insisted he would bring them to next week’s round at Le Mans.

Bagnaia did confirm that the weather prevented him testing set-up changes, so he instead tried old parts discarded after the pre-season tests, which teammate Marquez ha༒d continued to use.

The seaso𒅌n’s European leg is now fully in swing so Bagnaia will be hoping for circuits and conditions 🌟which suit his riding style, to finally deal a setback to the Marquez brothers.

Despite the year going poorly for him so far, he r♕emains in contention for the championship.