Pecco Bagnaia happy but under stress

Bagnaia’s words

Pecco Bagnaia enjoys his first career victory in Motegi: "It’ was quite a complicated race, in my opinion the pace è was really very very fast and in the last laps I had gone a little bit’ in braking, I couldn’ stop well anymore and I had to change a little bit’ the way of breaking and the engine brake strategy. All in all then at the end I was able to reopen the gap a little bit’ on the last lap and then I calmed down”.

"It’ was a perfect race weekend, in which we managed to collect maximum points, we have to continue like thisì. We know that you can not make mistakes, not è easy this fight for the World Championship, è very tough, but we are going very strong and we have a great pace. Lorenzo and Valentino were making even less mistakes than us, they always came first or second".

"It’ very stressful becauseé it takes very little to gain a lot of points or lose a lot. In the end, ten seems like a few, but it really isn”, admitted the reigning world champion.

"We have to keep working this way: this weekend we were really strong, we had a small hiccup in qualifying, but otherwise è everything was perfect. We are braking harder and harder and è harder and harder to control the bike, but I was able to handle it really well. Consistency in the end paid off a lot and my pace allowed me to win“, he concluded.