Ducati: anxiety Pecco Bagnaia, Paolo Ciabatti is outspoken

Ducati’s sports director on Bagnaia: “He is always critical of himself.”

The fall in Japan interrupted for Pecco Bagnaia a positive series that lasted since Assen, consisting of four victories and a second place. The Piedmontese rider after the Motegi crash, which drops him to -18 from Quartararo, was very hard on himself, denouncing a certain nervousness with four Grands Prix to go in the World Championship.

Ducati’s sporting director Paolo Ciabatti to the Gazzetta dello Sport swept away doubts about the centaur: “I saw Pecco serene, he is always very critical of himself, the fall comes in a path of growth that he thought he had completed. But like other times he will also learn from this mistake that, fortunately, was mitigated by Quartararo’s race. Have we talked about it? No need, also because sometimes you risk him getting more nervous.”

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