Franc🃏esco Bagnaia says his approach to MotoGP races will not change at the Indonesian Grand Prix despite a seventh DNF of 2024 cast🐼ing him further back in the points.

The reigning double world champio﷽n had strong pa🐭ce throughout last weekend’s Emilia Romagna GP round, as he qualified on pole and then won the sprint.

But problems with his Michelin tyres meant his pace was nowhere for the first🐓 half of the grand prix before he was then able to push towards the leaders.

Bagnaia then crashed on lap 21 of 2🧸7 while running third, allowing Jorge Martin in second to take a 24-point 𒊎lead in the standings having been just four clear after the sprint.

It marked his seventh non-finish of the year, which is two more 🌠non-scores than he tallied up in 2022 and 2023 w♌hen he won the title.

“I will approach it like always: pushing, trying to be competitive, trying to ꦚwin races,” he said on Thursday at Ma𓄧ndalika.

“I’m now 24 points behind, so it’s not a lot but it’s 📖also not a few.

“So, I think I still need to approach this part of the season ๊in an aggressive way and after these two races I will maybe change my strat🌄egy. But at the moment I have to push a lot.”

Michelin said after the Emilia Rꦦomagཧna GP that it needed time to analyse the data from Bagnaia’s tyres to determine what went wrong.

On Thursday in Indonesia, the Italian still had no concrete explanation for what w💯ent wrong with his tyres at Mi🍒sano.

“About ജwhat happened with the pace, it’s difficult to say som🌸ething,” he noted.

“The start of🌳 the rac𒁏e, it was very difficult to push. I was not having a great feeling with the rear tyre.

“We spoke a lot with Michelin, we tried to work toღ𒆙gether like always to develop and improve together.

“About the crash, it’s some💛thing that it’s not the first time it’s hapღpened.

“It was my mistake, but as soo🐻n as you are not pushing that hard on the brakes and your bike is more aligned, it’s easier to lose the front.

“But it’s s൲omething we’ve seen this season. It was a strange Sunday because I was feeling super goodꦯ all the weekend and in the race I was struggling to repeat the same pace I was doing in practice.

“We are already focused on this weekend. It was good las✅t season, just on Sunday, but we’ll take what we did on Sunday and try to be c🌌ompetitive the rest of the weekend.”