With Francesco Bagnaia’s MotoGP title lead reduced to just 13 points after crashing out in India, solving his braking woes is the top priority for this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix.
MotoGP title lead reduced to just 13 points after crashing out in India, solving his braking woes is the top priority for this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix.
“The maximum objective is to find my feeling on the braking. I’m sure we will do it,” Bagnaia said at Motegi on Thursday.“My feeling is that I’m braking the same but I’m not stopping the bike,” he said. “So it’s quite difficult because the rear is not helping me on braking.“Normally I can manage this. But my slides, last week, on the entrance to the corners were too unstable and it was difficult to control it.
“Normally, it is a normal slide which I can control, in the last weekends the rear slide was over the limit. We understand that. We decided to go a different way this weekend, we will start with two set-ups to understand the way to follow. It is clear, for us, to improve that area.”IN contrast to a year ago, when he was hunting down Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo, Bagnaia is now ‘the prey’ with Martin 13 points adrift and Buddh winner Marco Bezzecchi 44 from the top.
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