Francesco Bagnaia will line-up secᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚond for the MotoGP of Styria after coming within four hundreths of 🌌pole position. 

Bagnaia’s first lap out of the pits on his second and final run saw him🦩 move ahead of Fabio Quartararo, before fellow Ducati rider Jorge Martin surpassed the Italian with a new all-time lap record.

With Bagnaia qualifying second and four Ducatis ♛rounding out the top six positions, it’s a result that’s done little to suppress the notion of Austria being a ‘Ducati track’. 

And although Bagnaia feels like the Red Bull Ring presents a ‘great possibility’ to claim a first premier class win, the advantag🤪e is less for the Bologna bullets than in ‘past years’. &nbs൩p;

Bagnaia added: "This year the difference between manufacturers is less than t🤡he past years. In the past years Ducati and Honda were so (much) faster than the others, but now not. 

"If we look at the FP4 I was the o🦩nly Ducati in the top si🤡x. I think that things are changing. 

"In Jerez D๊ucati normally struggles, but this year we finish𝕴ed first and second so I think all the manufacturers are closer. 

"For sure we have an advantage in terms of the st🌞raights and in the speed, but they have an advantage in turning and in sector three. 

"I have a great possibility to do my first victo🤡ryꦜ (MotoGP), but also it will not be so easy like maybe everyone expects."

Bagnaia was fastest during this morning’s FP3,🍨 while also showing strong race pace in FP4. 

But while the results in those sessions are nothing new to Bagnaia who has multiple poles to his name😼, an ‘enormous step’ regarding ‘the mentality’ has been made according to the Italian who took just two days off during the summer break.  

"First of all, I didn’t do the holidays. I waited just two days and then on the Wednesday I was already training 𒉰in the gym with my trainer," 💜said Bagnaia.  

"Something where I was losing; I started well on this point (beginning o🅘f the season), but then during the season I was struggling a bit more to push always over the problems. 

"In Assen I tried it but it was very, very difficult. Another type of work we have done was to work with the Panigale and I think that I did an enormous step in front in terms of remaining constan🌳t and fast with also used♌ tyres. 

"I think that it worked very well this summer break ♔and when you work a lot and you know you are working very hard, your mentality is more focused. ꦉI trained it like this."