Francesco Bagnaia on Marc Marquez’s antics in French MotoGP practice: “A strategy I don’t share”
Factory Ducati rider Bagnaia💞 gestured furiously after trying to initially shake of Repsol Honda rider Marquez, who was clearly following him to set up his own fastest lap.
They both finished inside the to🐲p 10💧 but the edginess of Friday afternoon - with Bagnaia glaring furiously at the Honda garage before he went out again - has set up a tense Saturday in Le Mans.
“Last year he was ﷺdoing the same thing in Malaysia,” Bagnaia told about Marque♔z.
“But then I crashed and he got into the front rღow by himꦅself.
“It's Marc Marﷺquez, we all know Marc Marquez's 𒁏speed, so it's a strategy I don't share.
“I'm really different, I want to be alone in qualifying or when I do the t꧃ime attack.
“He has his own strategy and he's taking i🦄t to another level in my opinion: when you close, he stays there.
“If you keep your fee𝔉t♛ on the ground, he does the same thing.
“It's an even more evolved s꧟trategy in sticking than before.”
Friday wa𓆉s a tricky dꦐay for the reigning MotoGP champion.
“The last run helped me a lot to be calm, because😼 before I was quite worried,” he said. “This morning everything was going very well, but then from the time attack onwards everything was difficult.
“I thought it was just because I hadn't prepared the rear tire enough and that it wasn't ready yet, but then in the afternoon I restarted wit💞h the same tyre and I couldn't do the things I wanted, I was going long.
“I also lost a lot in💧 acceleration, because there was a lot of spin.
"As soon as we put on a new tyre, everything was per🍸fect.
“I wasn't able to be as fast as I would have liked becau🐲se I had🃏 lost feeling, but the time attack run is the only one where I felt like great new on my bike in FP2.
“I♉n the end it was just a tyre that wasn't working as it should have, but I lost almost 50 minutes💎 of the session.
“That's why we're pretty sure that tomorrow ♉will be better and I'm happy to be in the top 10.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports🥀, to football꧑, to F1.
