Guido Meda analyzes Pecco Bagnaia’s close farewell to Ducati
Guido Meda, in an exclusive interview with Sportal.it on the occasion of the event “Tennis and the summer of Sky Sport,” held Monday, May 4 at the Foro Italico in Rome, spoke about some important topics of MotoGP as the current superiority of Aprilia and the near farewell of Pecco Bagnaia to Ducati, just to move to the house of Noale.
“Will Aprilia win the World Championship? You know in my opinion it’s always a little early to say that, right? Maybe it’s also a little teasing to think that Ducati was in crisis to create the hypothesis of an alternative, I was among those who said instead ‘be careful to give Ducati in crisis, because it wasn’t Ducati is not in crisis.’ But Aprilia has certainly grown and in my opinion has come to their level, so I understand, I mean it’s not unrealistic to think that they can aim at the World Championship, at the big goal.”
The Sky commentator then addressed the relationship between Marco Bezzecchi and Jorge Martin: “Martin and Bezzecchi will take points away from each other? Yes but then there is one who wins, I mean I don’t think McLaren was sad last year to have Piastri and Norris. By now all the teams are trying to make the pair where if there is not one there is the other one winning. In fact probably Bezzecchi now that he has shown that he is also working with Martini fast, he is learning more and vice versa. Martin is also serving himself, no? Not utilitarianly, but they are a pair that works very well. In that world there, now, being in two, we said it so many times last year, helps a lot more than being alone.”
Next season in Aprilia will land Pecco Bagnaia, arriving from Ducati: “Is Noale the right home for Bagnaia? Bagnaia will go there, for sure… I don’t think Bagnaia goes away happy from Ducati, where he gave and took it’s useless for us to tell about it, it’s clear that he hoped it would end another way. Ducati made their choices which are absolutely legitimate, it’s a little strange that there was no room to reflect again with Bagnaia or that he maybe didn’t want to deal with it.”
“We don’t know if they are the ones who told him ‘thank you, let’s take Acosta’ or he went to them and said ‘go ahead and take Acosta I’m leaving.’ But the way he is, though, certainly right now Aprilia from the point of view of, let’s say, environment is more man-sized. He doesn’t want to say that Ducati is ruthless but it’s a reality in racing with a little bit more of an industrial mentality, a little bit more legitimately, sportingly oriented to the total, absolute result. Aprilia, especially I would say thanks to the Rivola treatment that maybe in some cases even went a little overboard in this, is definitely a house in which the human touch matters, weighs and works.”
