Francesco Bagnaia mentioned Friday’s unhealthy climate had a knock-on impact in Brazil’s MotoGP, disrupting Saturday’s race.
There was no dry operating on Friday, so riders did not have time to strive completely different setups. For Bagnaia, that meant going into Saturday with completely different setups for his two Desmosedicis.
The Italian favored a sure bike and began Q2 on that bike. Nevertheless, he crashed on the primary flying lap and completed eleventh, leaving solely the No. 2 automotive to complete qualifying.
“To be sincere, it was very intense,” Francesco Bagnaia instructed MotoGP.com in summarizing Saturday in Brazil.
“This morning went rather well. I didn’t have time to get on the bike yesterday and check the setup, so I used to be a bit unfortunate that I had two completely different bikes within the storage, however this morning I had two.”
“So I selected one of many two, and that was higher for me, however then I crashed and I did not have that, so the opposite bike had much less grip and I wanted grip on this observe, so I struggled fairly a bit in qualifying.
“Then we had a lap canceled due to a yellow flag, however to be sincere, I did not notice it, however something can occur.”
Bagnaia’s mistake was compounded by the course format, which he felt made overtaking tough.
“It’s extremely tough to overhaul on this observe and I acquired caught behind Alex Marquez who had closed the road quite a bit and I by no means had an opportunity to overhaul him, however it was my mistake,” defined the Ducati Lenovo Staff rider.
“It’s disappointing as a result of the bikes right here had been very aggressive and I felt very aggressive. I solely gapped up twice to strive one thing completely different and by the third nook I used to be again behind Alex in each conditions.”
“So the chances are good and it’s a disgrace that I couldn’t give my all at present to get on the rostrum, which was doable.”
Bagnaia completed the dash in eighth place, marking his finest MotoGP consequence this season after ending ninth in each races in Thailand.
