Christian Gabarini is the engineer who was on the side Casey Stoner in its historic title from 2007, and then next to it Marc Marquez in Honda and again with Jorge Lorenzo and is now the wingman of Pecco Bagnaia. In short, he has always accompanied the best Ducati riders on their way to success.
Bagnaia’s victory in Aragon came as no surprise to him. Back in the garage, Christian had done his best to prepare Pecco for this eventuality.
“It was a bit of what we were preparing for. We were scared of Marc because we knew how fast Marquez and Honda are here in Aragon. We knew he would be the one who would make it difficult for us – revealed his crew boss – But in the end you can never be completely prepared and that gives Pecco’s victory additional value: he won in Aragon, but he also beat Marc. In addition, Marquez is not in top form yet, but third-placed Mir is four seconds behind. I didn’t count the overtaking attempts, I think there were seven, and Francesco was cold and clear to everyone, and that’s not something you can take for granted, especially if Marc is behind you. That takes him a step further. We have been close to victory many times, but there is a lot of pecco in this one and a lot of the evolution of the bike, which has improved thanks to the wishes of him and the other riders. In my opinion, Bagnaia was good at diluting the strengths and weaknesses throughout the race: if there were difficulties with the front, in the final laps, which was not shown in practice, he was able to hold Marc back well despite this extra difficulty. If i believe in him? Not that I wanted to downplay him beforehand, but I’ve always believed in him, I’ve always liked him, otherwise I wouldn’t have agreed to be by his side, but when a MotoGP rider wins his first race and is on this path like joining an exclusive club “.
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