Francesco Bagnaia says his 70 point gap to Fabio Quartararo in the MotoGP points classification is now “far too much to recover” after falling 14th in the British Grand Prix.
The Ducati rider showed strong pace throughout the Silverstone event and ended up finishing second, just 0.022 seconds behind Pole Pol Espargaro, as he tried to further reduce the points lead of series leader Fabio Quartararo after being in the The French made up good ground for Austria.
This scenario shouldn’t happen, however, as Bagnaia soon began to struggle for speed after finishing second in the opening laps and dropping to fourth behind Quartararo on the second tour, before moving down to 14th with his soft compound Front tires, a strategy that also resulted in title hunter Joan Mir falling behind late.
This meant his deficit increased from 47 points to Quartararo, who drove to Silverstone, to 70 after the Yamaha racer took the victory in the end.
A disappointed Bagnaia stated that “Fabio has already won the championship” believing that “70 points is way too much to win back in the last six races”, even though he hadn’t exactly referred to what he was doing during the competition Crashed through the field confirming that Ducati “needs to ask Michelin what’s going on.”
“Fabio (Quartararo) has already won the championship because 70 points are way too many to win back, but we will not lose our ambition to try to win,” said the 2018 Moto2 World Champion.
“It’s going to be difficult, but it’s even harder because you work really well all weekend and then you suffer in the race because you can’t reach the pace you know, it’s very frustrating.
“We have to check the data, but we also have to ask Michelin what is happening.
“If everything can go well, then I think we can have a good race (in Aragon). , it’s really difficult. “
Bagnaia complained that he could only drive with “the same speed as the Moto2 winner”, his grip problems were so great, the Italian was irritated that he only encountered problems during the race after his “speed and consistency” consistently great “were practicing.
“It is clear that something went wrong because I fought for the top in every session all weekend, in FP4 I was third in qualifying, I was second and my pace and consistency was great,” Bagnaia continued.
“Then I don’t know what happened in the race because I had to fight a lot. I’ve never had that little grip (on the weekend) so I suffered a lot and it was a very difficult race.
“I tried not to lose too many positions, but on the final laps I drove at the same pace as the Moto2 winner. We have to understand what is happening because that is not normal and this is the second time in three races in which I have been losing points and not getting a good result through no fault of ours. “