Francesco Bagnaia is already plotting his path back to the top of MotoGP, having b🐲een dethroned as World Champion by Jorge Martin last weekend.

Bagnaia won 11 Sunday races in 2024, a tally that took him into the top-10 on the all-time list for premier class Grand Prix vic🧸t🌠ories, but the Italian is uninterested in celebrating these numbers, instead he just wants to keep them growing.

“Honestly, I’m not at a point in my career where I want to check those num🐠bers,” Bagnaia said after last weekend’s Solidarity Grand Prix.

“I’m a🅷 very young rider, and I think I still hav꧙e eight or 10 years in front of me, so I will try to do my maximum, I will continue to try to be that fast, that strong, and continue to try to increase.

"The most important thing is to increase in 🌳terms of championꩲship titles, and I will try.”

Bagnaia added that, al🐎though he lost the title in 2024, it has s𒅌till been a valuable year for him.

“Iജ’m not considering [2024] like a loss, properly, because I learn from my mistakes — I know that we lost the championship for the mistakes and this is something that I will improve,” he said.

“Also, if we look at the stats of Maꦫrc, he won two titles in a row, then he lost in 2015, and then he won four in a row.

“So, you ✃never know, and I will try to do my maximum to achieve again the maximum goal.”

In order to get back to the top, and reclaim the #1 plate he’s held in the last two years, Bagnꦉaia must learn from the mistakes h𓄧e made in 2024 that cost him the title.

“The first thing I will have to learn is to underꦐstand better the situations, because it’s true that three out of these eight zeros came from strange situations,” Bagnaia said.

“The one in Portimao with M🌸arc, the one in Jerez with Brad [Binder], and the one with ♊Alex Marquez in Aragon.

“So, I think all three — it’s true that I’ve been taken out by other rideꦐrs, but all three were situations that I could maybe have avoided.

“The one with Marc,🐻 maybe try to wait a bit, but he was faster, so maybe wait and don’t cross the line. I’m saying that, but when I’m racing I just want to arrive more in front as I can; but maybe for next year I will try to improve that.

“The one with Alex Marquez, I was clearly fas🥀ter by four tenths, and I didn’t wait because he goes wide so I said ‘Okay, it’s my mome▨nt’, and then he touched me and [the contact] makes me crash. The one with Brad, the same.

“So, I think I have to learn from my mistakes. The others wereཧ more tricky to anaꦜlyse because I was doing the same things, just entering a bit slower, and I crashed the same.

“So, they are more difficult to analyse, but for the things that I know I had a mistake 𝓀it’s more easy to learn and to understand.”

The former World Champion said that his crash in the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix and his falls in the Malaysian an♊d ⛄Catalan Sprints were the worst errors he made all season.

“The one in M🐷isano [Emilia-Romagna] was one of the worst, because I was easily finishing thi🌱rd,” he said.

“The more difficult one to accept is the one in 🥀Malaysia, honestly, because I wasn’t doing anything wrong: I entered slower, and maybe that was the reason for the crash, but this one is the most difficult to accept, like also the one here [in Catalunya] in the Sprint.”

Bagnaia added𓃲 that, aside from his obvious mistakes, he lost out at the start of the year with an uncomfortabl༒e feeling on the Desmosedici.

“I think the worst part of the season, apart from the mistakes, was the first part, because I decided to go with new parts on the 𝄹bike, that was the new forks and the new swingarm, and I lost time,” he sai🦋d.

“It’s true that I won in Qatar, but until Jerez I was struggling to be fast. Portimao was always one of my good tracks and I was struggling a lot t𓆉o be fast, Austin was ﷽tough.

“So, I wasn’t happy, and as soon as we decided to go back to my standard [setup] I started to be more fast and more strong, so f🐓rom that moment everything was better.”