Francesco Bagnaia admits it’s not possible to consider profitable MotoGP title after Italian GP

Francesco Bagnaia feels “it’s not possible to consider profitable the championship” after fading to fourth place at his residence Italian Grand Prix in Mugello.

After a incredible begin which noticed Bagnaia preventing for the lead with Marc Marquez and Alex Marquez, the Italian rider started to drop again, earlier than finally dropping the ultimate podium spot to VR46 Ducati’s Fabio Di Giannantonio within the closing laps.

Marc Marquez gained the race from his brother Alex, whereas Bagnaia completed fourth – and is now 110 factors again within the MotoGP riders’ world championship.

“Like this, it’s not possible to consider profitable the championship,” Bagnaia advised the media post-race.

“If I’m doing races like this, if we aren’t altering one thing on the bike and the bike stays the identical, I believe that it’s tough to consider the championship.

“So we simply have to do one thing totally different, hoping to seek out the answer.

“I believe the potential is there. I do know that I can struggle for the win, I do know that what I did within the first six, seven laps is one thing that I can do all the time. I simply have to really feel good with my bike.”

Bagnaia has been struggling along with his bike because the begin of the season, particularly affected by issues with the entrance finish of his Ducati.

“I used to be fairly assured the primary a part of the race, I used to be feeling good,” he mentioned. “After which after six laps, the entrance began to drop. I wanted to decelerate as a result of I used to be risking to crash.

“The issue is that this season it’s all the time like this. I can not do what I would like on the bike. I have to observe what the bike has to do, and when I attempt to do what I would like, I crash, or virtually.

“At the moment, I used to be virtually on the bottom within the final nook once I tried simply to do the identical line as I did all the time.”

He added: “From the primary race, it’s like this. I possibly begin nicely, then I do all of the race watching the brothers, what they’re doing, hoping a mistake from them to possibly have an opportunity to overhaul.

“However like this it’s not potential, as a result of I’m there, caught in between seven, eight tenths, then I attempt to push to catch again, I arrive to 2, three tenths, after which I have to decelerate once more as a result of the entrance is beginning to understeer in all places.

“It modifications in a lap. You are feeling okay, you might be pushing, you might be there, shut. You may have an opportunity, you possibly can overtake. After which from a lap, you begin to have understeer, motion, and it’s not possible to be aggressive such as you had been within the first laps.”

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