Davide Tardozzi admits Ducati failed to help Francesco Bagnaia gain the “confidence” he needed for GP26 after crashing out of the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Bagnaya He fell in the 11th round Brazilian GP Running 11th behind LCR Honda star Johannes Zarco. The two-time champion lost his head-to-head defeat. Ducati The GP26 skidded mid-corner and out of the race, marking his seventh retirement in the last nine Grands Prix.
Six of Bagnia’s seven retirements since his DNF at the 2025 San Marino Grand Prix have been due to accidents. It wasn’t his fault when Bagnaia retired from the Malaysian Grand Prix in October due to a puncture.
Bagnaia’s setback at the Brazilian GP comes after a crash in qualifying in Goiania last Saturday. In the same session where VR46 racer Fabio Di Giannantonio took pole in GP26, Bagnaia failed to qualify for the Brazilian GP. And it only continues to the P11 clink.
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Bagnaia struggled to beat Fermin Aldeguerre during the Brazilian GP.Although the Gresini star, who rides a Ducati GP25, is coming back from injury. Aldeguer broke his femur in January, and hasn’t ridden a MotoGP bike since November, but finished P8.
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Ducati team manager Tardozi Bagnaia believes his difficult Brazilian GP came from only qualifying in P11. But the 29-year-old’s latest DNF wasn’t “bad luck”, as the Ducati GP26 couldn’t help him gain the confidence to run this time.
Tardozzi said, through the quote Motorsport.com: “It’s not bad luck, it’s a mistake because we didn’t give him the confidence he needed to compete at his level.
But he himself admitted that the problem stemmed from a mistake he made in Saturday’s qualifier.
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Tardozzi admitted that Bagnaia’s crash during qualifying for the Brazilian GP had taken a heavy toll on him over the weekend in Goiania. But the Turin native doesn’t think his devastation in Sunday’s race was related to his crash in Q2 on Saturday.
Instead, as Tardozzi notes, Bagnaia explained after the Brazilian GP that he currently feels uncomfortable riding the GP26, which is preventing him from pushing the bike to its limits. Bagnaya felt he was at the bike’s “mercy” no matter where he started.
“It’s not good to start from behind, but the way I raced today had nothing to do with it,” he said. Sky Sports Italy. “I wasn’t comfortable, I couldn’t push and I didn’t feel good. I didn’t have anything. I was at the mercy of the bike.
Sooner or later we will be back where we want to be, we have to rebuild our speed and it is not an easy road.
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