Phere is Bagnaia he emerged a great winner from Jerez while at Le Mans he finished Sunday in third place behind the winner Jorge Martin and of Marc Marquez.
In the world rankings Bagnaia is second with one gap of 38 points from Martin. Bagnaia started very well today and led the race for 21 laps, without managing to escape or make Martin make mistakes. The Pramac rider overtook him on lap 21 and on the last lap the Italian was also overtaken by Marquez, moving up to third place.
On the French weekend…
“It was a practically perfect weekend, we did everything to the maximum but yesterday’s race affected us too much. Not having done it I found myself unprepared but the truth is that in the last 5 laps they were going faster, I tried to do my best , I was stronger in some points but I was losing too much at turn 9 and I wasn’t close enough to attack him, I was stronger than him in the last two corners and I wanted to try but Marc’s overtaking affected my strategy, but he made a great overtaking. far away, perfect. It was hard, it was a shame”
At turn 9 why weren’t you perfect?
“I managed to brake hard but I slowed it down a lot, every lap I got there with 4 tenths and then at the finish line I had 2, Jorge recovered 2 every lap. Jorge brought in more speed without going wide”
Are you three the strongest?
“Yes, at the moment yes, we are the most complete, unfortunately in the last two sprints we could have been strong but we didn’t do them, it’s a huge loss of points. However, the three of us are the strongest at the moment. There are many riders who can do well like Enea, who was very strong today, but we need qualifying, a race… Jorge crashed in Jerez but it would still have been the three of us”
In what spirit do you return home?
“I would like the Barcelona race straight away, it was a good weekend apart from yesterday’s result and today’s third place, I could have done more, perhaps I didn’t make good use of the package I had”
Did you understand what happened yesterday? Can you tell us? Could it happen again?
“Yes, I understood it but I can’t tell you what it is. It could happen again but theoretically it shouldn’t happen again”
