Francesco Bagnaia makes an unusual confession after the MotoGP sprint at Mugello.
Francesco Bagnaia was scared of crashing as rain emerged in the MotoGP Italian Grand Prix sprint race, which “started the panic for the riders” before he recovered to take victory.The MotoGP world champion extended his lead in the riders’ standings to four points by winning the Mugello sprint race, but had to overcome a threat of rain which disrupted his rhythm at the front.
At the end of lap two the rain flags were displayed and Bagnaia, as the leader, took caution through Arrabbiata 2 to gauge conditions on his slick tyre-shod Ducati.to barge through, until the rain threat rescinded and Bagnaia regained his composure. The factory Ducati rider made short work of returning to the lead, passing Martin into the first turn on lap four, and fended off late pressure fromBagnaia conceded the rain flags made him ride conservatively as he feared crashing while leading – just as he did during the Americas GP in April.
“When I will rewatch the race I will see where I started the panic for the riders behind as when I exited from Arrabbiata 2, I was feeling that it was wet and everyone was passing me,” Bagnaia said.“But then I just decided to go with Jorge because arriving in sector four everything was dry, sector one and two as well, but the last part of sector two and the first part of sector three was wet. So it was quite scary.
“I don’t want to enter into this discussion because every time I have to speak what I think… I am tired about it,” he said.
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