Francesco Bagnaia “spent hours analysing mistakes, worst races”
“On the left corners I miss something”
11 GP wins. 8 non-scores. 10 points.
Those were the key statistics from 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia’s 2024 MotoGP campaign, where the Italian won more GPs than all other riders combined but still came up ten points short of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin in the title battle.
“I’ve spent hours analysing and re-watching my mistakes and worst races from last year,” double champion Bagnaia confessed at this week’s Ducati Lenovo🐬 team launch.
While the cause of his non-𓃲scores ꦇvaried, among the conclusions drawn by Bagnaia was the need for greater patience in some situations.
“I want always to arrive [as far] in front as possible. But I understood that sometimes it's bett🔥er to wait a bit. Because the championship is long,” 🎃he said.
“It's true that you can gain and lose many points every weekend. And it's true that it wasඣn't always my fault.
"But if in more than one situation, I was wai🌼ting [more patient], I was not crashing and taking maybe 13 points [that] was enough to win𒈔 [the title].”
While patience could have paid off during situations such as clashes with the Marquez brothers༒ at Portimao (Marc) and Aragon (Alex), there were other occasions where Bagnaia fell on his own while riding ‘calmly’.
“It's difficult to predict sometimes, because I lost the front many times when I was calm. Like in Barcelona [Sprint] on the last lap, like in Malaysia. So that's something that iไt's not easy to understand, but I will try.
“And [then], it's not t♔hat the team has to i♏mprove, but we have to improve as a team in some situations.
"It’s something that has to come easily, just💦 doing our job and not being under pressure sometimes, just working🌃 like normal and everything will be easier.”
Bagna👍ia also highlighted that he fell only nine times over the entire season, meaning he was ranked ౠjust 17th in terms of most falls last year.
The proble🔯m in terms of the title was that seven of those accidents came durin🔯g races (he retired due to a technical issue in the Le Mans Sprint).
“It's more - not to change the strategy, but to change something during the 𒐪races,” he conf𝔉irmed.
“Because if we look, I'm one of the riders that crashed less l🌼ast year, but [sevꦉen] out of nine were in the races. So I have to improve that.”
“On the left corners, I miss something”
In performance terms, Bagnaia was often untoucha🙈ble last season, claiming dominant double viꦛctories at Assen, Austria and Barcelona.
However, the Italian revealed one areꦗa where he can still improve furthe𝔉r.
“Riding style is difficult to change a lot, it’s a long process. But what I want to imp𒅌rove from the first test is to try to be [as] competitive in left corners as I am in the right corners,” he said.
“This is already a good thing because ღon the right corners I feel very, very strong. [But] on the left corners I miss something. So I will try to be better on tꦯhat."
That’s 𒉰the polar opposite of new team-mate Marc Marquez, who is famously strong in left-hand corners and at anti-clockwise tracks such as COTA, Sachsenring, Aragon ꦓand Phillip Island.
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