Malaysian MotoGP: Giacomo Agostini calls for Francesco Bagnaia to become a star - “we need a character”
Bagnaia enters the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Malaysian MotoGP, the penultimate round of the season, having overcome a 91-point deficit in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:MotoGP standings behind 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Quartararo to now lead by 14 points.
He can seal the championship at Sepang this weekend but the greater goal could be to inherit 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Valentino Rossi’s status as an icon of the sport.
"We need a char♉acter, someone who imposes himself continuously, who conquers and makes the fans dream,🅷” the legendary Agostini, a 15-time world champion, said to La Repubblica.
“If every year there is a different🌃 champion, people will thiꦛnk that anyone can lead in MotoGP.
“I'm sure, we need a star."
Joan Mir and Quartararo won their first championships in the past two years and now ღDucati rider Bagnaia is on the verge of a maiden title.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez, who missed much of this season due to injury but may emerge as a serious threat in 2023,ܫ had previously wꦗon four titles in a row.
But Agostini, the 80-year-old Italian who has won more 🍎titles than anyone in the pre❀mier class, wants to see his countryman Bagnaia establish himself as No1.
"I wish him so,” Agostini said. “In the standings he has surpassed po🎉or Quartararo and I think no one stops him.
“Maybe he becomes champion already in Sepang, although in the bikes it is always better to wait for the mathematics. Anythꦐing can always happen.”
Agostini said about 🧔Yamaha rider Quartararo: "I'm sorry to see him like this. He's good, but today Ducati ꧒is Ducati.
“With Pecco the bike forms an exceptional combination, a beautiful thing that has blossomed in an overbearing way. He just needs to fini♐sh first once again and that's pretty much it."
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering eve🧔rything from American sports, to football, to F1.
