Francesco Bagnaia pinpoints key corners for Le Mans victory push

Francesco Bagnaia pinpoints critical corners to improve at Le Mans for Mot💞oGP victory challenge.

Francesco Bagnaia
Francesco Bagnaia

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia arrives at this weekend's French MotoGP determined to improve upon last year's third-place finish, when he narrowly missed out on victory af꧅ter a fierce three-way battle with Jorge Martin ﷽and Marc Marquez.

Currently third in the 2025 World Championship standings behind Alex and Marc Marquez, Ba🍸gnaia’s only victory so far this season came when new team-mate Marc fell from the lea𓆉d in COTA.

But the Italian couldn’t fully capitalise on Marc’s latest mistake, at Jerez, where Bagnaia took the chequered fla𒀰g in a frustrated third behind Alex Marquez and Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo.

A day of post-racing followed, where Bagn💫aia re-evaluated a mystery component previously set aside during winter testing - aꦯnd already used by Marc.

“We tested something🍰 that Marc was already🐲 using and we will try to use it also," Bagnaia confirmed to MotoGP.com on Thursday. 

"Unluckily, the condit🧜ions with the wind weren't the best, and it was difficult to🎉 find an improvement in the set-up.

“So we are starting wiꦇth the same setup and we’ll just have something different that I wasn't using before.”

Pressed to identify exactly what the new element might be, Bagnaia replied: “No൩, I can’t!”

Martin, Bagnaia, Marquez, 2024 French MotoGP
Martin, Bagnaia, Marquez, 2024 French MotoGP

Despite finishing on the wrong end of last year’s victory battle - and absent from the list of five different Ducati riders to have w𝔍on at Le Mans in the last five years - the former do📖uble champion is a fan of the French track and believes improvements in two key corners could make the difference this weekend.

“I hope that I could do the same [as last year], but this time with me winnin🍷g," Bagnaia smiled. "I think it's a good track for me. If I could improve on the areas where last year I was str🐼uggling, that were corner 3 and corner 9 I can have a chance to fight for it.”

Corners 3 and 9 are part of the Dunlop and Chemin Aux Boeufs chicane♚s.

“I feel good. I always like to ride here. I love the layout, I love the fans. So I feel ready like always,” he added. “It will be importಌant to work like we are doing in the last races, but this time I would like to push a bit more.

“I need to fight f✅o💖r the results and maybe to win.”

Bagnaia and A💦lex Marquez are the only riders to have scored points in all ten races so far this season.

After five rounds o🏅f last year, Bagnaia had already suffered three non-scores, incl𒅌uding a Le Mans Sprint DNF due to a technical issue.

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