Pecco Bagnaia doesn’t feel like a fourth-place driver
The words of Pecco Bagnaia
Pecco Bagnaia è vented after the disappointing Grand Prix d'Argentina: "I simply struggled to have a pace that would allow me to at least try to fight for third place. I got off to a good start and got to the front right away, but after a few laps I started to have trouble getting the rear tire to work. I probably wasn’t good at handling it. Not è that I went so much slower than the first ones, but just that tenth or tenth and a half that added up for all the laps generated this gap of 5 seconds".
"Unfortunately, although I tried in the final to get close to Franco again, I couldn’t. He pushed hard with the soft but in the end è it was consistent and so I made fourth, but there’è to work and there’è to understand some things. I am not being able to ride like I used to and especially I don’t have the feeling of last year. We have to work to get back to it".
"I do my best every time I get on the track, I do what I can. My best today was to get fourth. As soon as I can regain my usual feeling I will come back and fight for first place, where I belong, because I am not a fourth-place or even a third-place rider. You have to work to get back to the front and get a good feeling, which is taking time away from me. This weekend we took a step forward, but obviously it è was not enough. È it is true that this is not è a congenial track, but I shouldn’t finish fourth anyway so there’è to make another step".
"The’beginning of last year had been even more complicated. We had gone down a totally wrong path and got back on track in Jerez. Considering that in 2024 I had won in Qatar, a track where però I do very well, doing zero in Portimao and fifth in Austin, let’s say that the start of last season had been worse. Here però I’m already 31 points from the top, so you have to turn and try to gain points, becauseé even if the tracks that will come after Austin will be more towards me è difficult to recover so many points to a rider like Marquez that of mistakes does not make", concluded.
