Friday at the Aragon MotoGP saw Francesco Bagnaia make more changes t📖o both bike set-up and riding style in his quest to unlock the Ducati G🤪P25’s potential.

The double world champion felt he had reasonable pace on used tyres, but on new sofജt tyres he was left 0.788s behind team-mate Marc🎀 Marquez, in ninth place.

“We are trying different things and it's not an easy situation because the bike is the same as the previous races, so we are trying to find different solutions,” said Bagnaia, who was trying the ‘longer’ Ohlins front fork.

“Today we decided♑ to go with the long forks, and the feeling was the same, more or💧 less.

“I'm struggling to put spee✱d onღ the entrance [to the corners] so it's the same limit that I’m having from the start [with the GP25].

🔴“And in this track, where🎐 the grip is very low, it's even worse because you don't get the confidence to enter fast.

“Whꦇen I try to enter fast, I lose the front, and it becomes worse 𝔉with the time attack using the new soft rear.

“With the medium rear, I was qui𝔍te confident with the pace. I was trying to be consistent with the used tyre and the pace wasn't bad - apart from Marc, that at the moment is on another level.

“But considering the others, we were very close.

“Then as soon we put the soft rear, I started to struggle more. I only dropped five tenth🎀s, and I started to have a lot of front locking. I was losing the front a lot, and the understeer was huge.

“🍌So we just need to change a bit the setup and maybe the balance of the bike for tomorrow, and try to find different solutions.”

Pecco Bagnaia: "I had 30 metres of locking"

Bagnaജia has also tried to move away from his natural ha𓆉rd-braking riding style.

“The one of braking as much as I can, like I was doing before, is n🌱ot working [with 𓆏this bike],” he said.

“I'm losing the front while I'm straigh🌞t. Today I had 30 metres of locking. So it's unbelievable and I need to do different things.”

Nevertheless, Bagnaia insists🐻 “winning” remains his target this weekend.

“I'm an optimistic guy. I know that we are speaking about details and that maybe tomorrow morning, some little changes can mak♐e a huge difference.

“We will try at leas🃏t to start from the front row and then try to win the race.

“We know perfectly how Marc is strong here. He's making the difference. In Sectorꦡ 2, he is giving to me five tenths. So we need to solve some problems.

“But apart from that, we just need to be focused on the work because we know that the potential thatꦚ Marc is showing is there.

“So we need to find a way also for myself.”

Qualifying won’t j🦂ust be about start🎀ing as close to the front as possible, but securing a place on the grippier part of the grid.

“We spoke about [the grid in the Safety Commission], we asked to clean it,” ♔he confirmed. “But the problem is not that it’s very dusty, it's more that the grip is very low.

“Starting today from third position on the grid, I spun until the first corner. Then I started from second position, in the middle, and I just spun a bit🍬 in th꧃ird gear.”

Pecco Bagnaia: “I will never quit what I signed”

Bagnaia also addressed iꦐnternet rumours that he could be a dream target for Yamaha next season, despite having a contract with Ducati until the end of 2026.

“That, I don't understand,” he said. “Because when there's a signed contract, like I said on Thursday in Silverstone, I will never quit what I signed.✤ This is something that will never change in my l💮ife.

“I want to stay in Ducati, Ducati want me to stay… until the finish of this contract and also the next♛ one. So I don't why.

“I started hearing a lot, seeing a lot of♕ posts ෴of me with [photoshopped] blue leathers.

“It's true that a ri🐬der like me that is in some hard moment, people can start thinking ‘maybe he will go’. But it's not what is happe🐲ning to me.”