Valencia MotoGP: Francesco Bagnaia: ‘I recognised that I had a problem, rider with a lot of ups and downs’

A brutally honest Francesco Bagnaia has conceded that mistakes during the early stages of the 2022 MotoGP season made him understand that he had ‘a problem' and that he 'was a rider with good speed but not consistency’.
Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati MotoGP Valencia
Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati MotoGP Valencia

Despite suffering five DNF's, fo♛ur of which were individual errors throughout the 2022 season, Bagnaia became the newest MotoGP world champion today in Valencia. 

The Ducati rider also became the Italian manufacturer’s second-ever MotoGP champion after 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Casey Stoner, and first in 15 years. 

An open an🔯d honest Bagnaia sat down in front of the media following his ninth place finish at the season-finale, stating he needed to make serious improvements following early mistakes that made a world title win look very slim.  

"The most difficult momenܫt outside of today; well not today but yesterday, was Sachsnering," said Bagnaia. "I was very competitive like in Le Mans wꦺith a possibility to win the race but I crashed. 

"In that moment I recognised that my ꦯwe🌠ak point was that I’m a rider with a lot of ups and downs, with a good speed but not with consistency. 

"And to accept that was not easy. From𓃲 that moment I recognised that I ha♉d a problem and I tried to improve myself."

After overcoming his early season mistakes Bagnaia managed t🎶o overturn the biggest deficit in premier class history.

Bagnaia trailed Fabio Quartararo by 91 points just ten races ago, and not counti🌼ng Japan where made another error on the final lap, Bagnaia has been without doubt the best rider on the grid. 

Francesco Bagnaia, Fabio Quartararo, MotoGP race, Valencia MotoGP, 6 November
Francesco Bagnaia, Fabio Quartararo, MotoGP race, Valencia MotoGP, 6 November

Of all the mistakes he made, Bagnaia confirmed that he mom🤡entarily lost faith at Sachs🐟enring.

"I just lost the faith on the championship for like one hour after Sachsenring. But even in that moment🌼 I was knowing there was a chance to be world champion," addꦆed Bagnaia. 

"We performed in an incredible way in🌟 the second part of the season and we analysed everything at home to understand why I was crashing, why I was making so many mistakes. 

"From that moment we did somethiꦐng incredibꦓle. We really deserved this title."

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