Bagnaia: ‘It’s been a tough weekend’

italian francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), winner of the MotoGP Malaysian Grand Prix and just two points away from the world title, says ‘now is the time to settle down’.“because of the mistake he made on Saturday, the weekend was pretty tough”, but “for Valencia” they need to “understand what happened”.

“You can be stronger without pushing the car like you did yesterday and today’s race proved that the pace was very good without doing anything crazy,” he said.

“The straight into the first corner helped me start, but Martin had incredible pace after that, so did the starting system and my reflexes with danger when braking . I was pushing a lot, but I couldn’t reach it and after two laps I decided to loosen up a bit. Bastianini was also pushing quite a bit, so he was one of the toughest parts of the race when he passed me. Because he had more traction in the fast corners than I did. He won a point today,” admits Pecco.

“The second half of the race will cost you more due to rear tire wearthat’s why I tried to manage it in the best possible way, I saw that my pace was getting better, I tried to recover, but I took the risk and went wide at Turn 7, I tried to be as close to Bastianini as possible,” continued Bagnaia.

“When I overtook Bastianini, I tried to force three laps, but with two laps to go my rear tire broke and I slowed down. I went wide and that’s how I won,” said the Italian.

Regarding the Valencia race, he affirmed: If I have a chance to win I will do it and hopefully the race is dry and we’ll see what happens.”

De Bastiannini said: “He won’t be an easy partner. We both have to do a good job.” Definitely not today. “

“It’s going to be different because he’s a different person and when he’s in the factory team he’ll have to adapt to the way he works. It won’t be easy for him, but in the championship it’s always the same.” What I want is my teammate and that will always be the case,” Bagnaia said after winning the Malaysian Grand Prix.