Pecco Bagnaia is ready to turn over a new leaf

For Pecco Bagnaia, this year&#8217s will be a special season: the Piedmontese rider&#8217s goal is to put behind him a disappointing season, with only two Gp wins and two others in the Saturday Sprints and a bitter fifth place in the MotoGp World Championship, with a sidereal gap to the Marquez brothers and a worse overall score than even Marco Bezzecchi and Pedro Acosta. For Bagnaia himself, however, we will have to wait and see what 2026 may hold.

“In the tests, again here in Buriram, we took a huge step forward compared to 2025, I like the new bike and I had no problems adapting – said the three-time world champion, two in the premier class, in the ‘media scrum’ on the eve of the race weekend in Thailand -. It’s not that the new Desmosedici has so many differences compared to the 2025 bike but those few changes, for me, are the right ones. I am more comfortable in the saddle and riding, I was looking for that and the prospects are good. Now we get serious, though: it is difficult to understand the values in the field right away but I am convinced that we have worked well”.

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“L’last year here I finished third – added Pecco -. To understand how the season will go, it will be necessary to run a few races. The important thing though is not the result itself but how I get there. Maybe this year I&#8217ll finish fourth but I feel better than last year: in the tests, however, I realized that the potential is there and we will do everything to exploit it. Clearly, it is important to try to win, but it will also be important to be aware that we can give one hundred percent, something that last year I could not do”.

Bagnaia then responded to a question about his relationship with the team, also in anticipation of a possible farewell at the end of the season: “We all worked well, even having Alex Marquez&#8217s data available helped. During testing, however, I did not pay much attention to either the times of others or the comments, I preferred to focus on myself”.

“Any advice from Dall’Igna ahead of this season? No, I have learned on my own and I think that is the best thing – Bagnaia later explained -I cannot and do not want to put myself among the favorites, given what happened last year, but my ambition is to be there among the top. When you are in the Ducati box and you are on the fastest bike in the world, it cannot be otherwise”.