Pecco Bagnaia cannot make any other mistakes after the fall of Motegi. In Thailand, the Ducati rider will attack Fabio Quartararo.
The watchword for Ducati and Pecco Bagnaia is forbidden to make mistakes. After five retirements of the season, the last one less than a week ago in Motegi, where he made a mistake on the last lap of the race. The Turin driver can no longer commit missteps when there are four races to go and there are 18 points behind the leader of the World Championship Fabio Quartararo.
At the summer break he accused a gap of 91 points from the leader in the standings, after the Aragon podium had dropped to 10 points, the slip at the Twin Ring offered the opponent 8 points on the silver tray. Now there is the round of the GP of Thailand at Chang International Circuit where we will probably return to deal with the instability of the weather dictated by the rain. The four consecutive victories seemed to have channeled Pecco Bagnaia on the direct track that leads to the world scepter, but the fifth “zero” forces us not to sleep peacefully.
Pecco Bagnaia in the final sprint
He did not look for an alibi after his fall in Japan, he was very critical of himself, but it is useless to continue to mull over what happened. “Getting back on the bike just a week after the Japanese GP will help me finish last Sunday’s race“, Declared Pecco Bagnaia on the eve of the press conference in Thailand. “We will work hard since Friday to be ready for the race, which will probably take place in the rain. I am determined to do well and not make more mistakes“.
The Ducati factory team rider has to deal not only with Quartararo and Espargarò, but also with internal competition, in particular he will have to carefully guard against the attacks of his future box mate Enea Bastianini, which for three races now has practically put his breath on his neck. There will be no team orders, Bagnaia rejects such a hypothesis, but it is true that the driver has lost precious points. “I’ve already fallen five times this year, I can’t afford it. So I have to think about it“.
But there is also the bogeyman of rain, both in Indonesia and Japan Pecco Bagnaia found some too many problems in the wet. “We have to understand why I was so slow in the wet, because in the next race the possibility of getting wet is great“.
