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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Casey Stoner, and first in 15 years. 

An open and 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 fo🔯llowing early mistakes that made a world title win look very sli💝m.  

"The most difficult moment outside of today; well not today but yesterday, was Sachsnering," said Bagnaia. "I was very competitive like in Le꧒ Mans with a possibility to win the race⛦ but I crashed. 

"In t🐷hat moment I recognised that my weak 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. From that moment I recognised♔ that I had a problem and I tried to improve myself."

After overcoming his early season mistakes Bagnaia managed to💞 overturn the biggest deficit in premier class history.

Bagnaia 🎐trailed Fabio Quartararo by 91 points just ten races ago, and not counting 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, Bagn🐠aia confirmed that he momentarily lost faith at Sachsenring.

"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," added Bagnaia꧒. 

"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 makiꦜng so many mistakes. 

"From that moment we did 𒐪something incredible. We really deser🐠ved this title."

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