Pecco Bagnaia has identified his key l💛esson about "mistakes" after finishing third at the MotoGP Qatar Grand Prix.

The double premier class champion was expected to be strong in Qatar and take the fight to team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez ahead of the fourth round of the season.

But Marquez completed his third clean sweep of 2025, while 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pecco Bagnaia struggled to eighth in the sprint and could get no higher than third in the grand🦩 prix from 11th on the grid after a crash in qualify♕ing.

He was promoted to second after a post-race penalty for Maverick Vinales, leading to Ducati’s first factory team 1✤-🎃2 of the season with Marquez winning.

Bagnaia blamed his Saturday sprint struggles on a recurring balance issue caused by a smaller fuel tank, though he says “it’s not possible” that he can have these problems whi𓆉le in grands prix he can fight for the podium.

Asked by TNT S💜port what he needs to improve going forward, Bagnaia said: “First of all, I cannot make any more mistakes like I did in qualifying because I cannot start from the fourth row.

“Maximum is t🌞he second and that’s already a bad result.

“So, this is the first thing to improve - don’t make any more mistakes wa🎃nting more.

“Then the next is to understand wha▨t to do in the sprint because it’s not possible to lose time and not have the same chance as the Sunday race to create chances to overtake.”

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Bagnaia believes a better qualifying could have see💎n him have a better chance of battling with t🦩eam-mate Marc Marquez.

As for finishing third on the ro𒅌ad, he said he learned from his eight non-scores last season and🎉 gave up his chase in the latter stages after using up his medium rear tyre.

“I was pushing hard and from thatꦇ position, to overtake riders it was very important🦄 to use the rear tyre a lot,” he added.

“I tried to manage the rear but I was pushing hard when I was battling with Franky [Morbidelli], I lost a lot of time and to come back to gain this half-second maybe I pushed too much and the last four, five laps I was comp𝔉letely out of rear tyre.

“I tried t🌱o be faster but it wasn’t possible. Sometimes, like I learn from last year, it’s better to finish where you are.

“I think that if I was starꦬting from more in front, at least a battle was more of a chance.

“Battling with Marc was more of a chance because I thin📖k the ꦡpace was very similar and without pushing that much in the first part of the race I was arriving in the last part with more tyres and it was possible to fight more.

“But it’s impossible to know, it’s impossible to say something. Let’s🦩 be happy for what happened and try to improꦡve for the next one and not make the same mistake as yesterday.”