Mattia Pasini warns Bagnaia and Ducati

Pasini’s words on the eve of the new MotoGp season

Mattia Pasini gave a lengthy interview to ‘La Gazzetta dello Sport’ in which he covered several topics, pointing to Pecco Bagnaia as the favorite for the new MotoGp season: “Absolutely yes, he is fast and has gained more awareness after the title. Let’s be clear: Ducati is clearly favored, it has reached a very high level thanks to a change that in the last 10 years has led it to revolutionize its way of working, and it is not to blame. On the contrary. It is maximizing an outstanding project, and it is the others, those who are chasing, who need to wake up. The Desmosedici has such a disarming performance that it will be difficult for others to counter it, except at the level of individual situations.”

The main antagonist will still be Fabio Quartararo: “Here, Pecco’s first rival for me is him. In Yamaha they are happy with the progress of the engine, even if it is not up to the Ducati one, and on the bike they fired a bad cartridge, the new frame, and a good one, the old one, chosen on the last day of testing. We’ll see which one will be the right one.”

The Sky commentator did, however, identify a possible surprise: “I would, however, worry most of all about Jorge Martin with Pramac: after last year’s contract affair he will have a poisoned tooth and is a very uncomfortable customer for me.”