Francesco Bagnaia says the internal questions he faced during Ducati’s fall in 2025 were less important. Neither Bagnaia nor the team can explain the discomfort on the GP25.
The Italian has finished first or second in the World Championship every year since joining the competition. Ducati In the year factory team in 2021, but dropped to fifth last year.
While he won two Grands Prix and two Sprints, Bagnaya He has also failed to reach Q2 on four occasions and has retired in six of the last seven races.
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Francesco Bagnaia faced ‘1,000 questions’ from Ducati staff last year.
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Concerned about his relegation, Ducati management peppered him with questions when he returned to the garage. This was counterproductive creating too much ‘noise’.
Bagnaya is ‘self-taught’. Last year – even Luigi Daligna couldn’t give him the advice he wanted.
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The two-time MotoGP champion said: “In situations like this, everyone wants to have their opinion, you want to make more noise than you need to.” “When we were in good shape, I went back to the garage, spoke to Christian and Tommy and the engineers listened to me.
“But this year I got to the garage and everyone was asking questions, making more noise than we wanted. This year, 1,000 questions arrived in the box, and we didn’t understand anything.”
‘My mechanics deserve a statue,’ said Peko Bagnaia.
Bagnaia now realizes his ‘big’ mistake – trying to recreate the GP24. He won 11 races and scored 16 podiums in his title race with George Martin.
Although he was extremely appreciative of the mechanics who made the tests possible, in the end it was a ‘waste of time’ as the bike’s DNA was fundamentally altered.
He said: “My mistake was probably convincing myself that my ability with the GP24 was at its peak, so I assumed I’d do the same thing again. Instead, the bike changed and I tried every way to make that bike look ’24’ again, to no avail. So that was a bit of a waste of time.”
He later added: “I’m very happy with my team, my technicians. My mechanics deserve a statue for the amount of time they put everything together and disassembled.”
Bagnaia has reportedly signed for Aprilia Before 2027, so this historic partnership will be the last year. Pedro Acosta will replace him as Marc Marquez’s teammate.
The #63’s struggles continued at the Thai Grand Prix last weekend when he finished 13th and 9th (in both races), though it was a tough weekend for Ducati across the board.
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