RiderTua.com – Pecco Bagnaia was not blamed by the Stewards Panel and did not want to be blamed for the incident where he fell with Marc Marquez. The official Ducati team rider left Portimao with only 4 points left and suffered his first defeat in a close battle with Marc Marquez. Pecco regrets what happened, but prefers not to think about it anymore and has started work with the aim of recovering the lost ground in Austin in the next two weeks.
Pecco Bagnaia Not to Blame for Incident with Marc Marquez
At the end of the race, the reigning world champion met with the media and assured that the day had been more complicated than he wanted, especially not being able to race as he did all weekend in Portugal. “Before the race finished I didn’t feel the same sensation as yesterday and this morning I had a little difficulty. I thought I could attack, but I couldn’t be as fast as the first and I had to start racing by paying attention to some aspects. I tried to defend myself, but Acosta was clearly stronger than me. Then Marc tried to overtake me, but he went wide, he closed the racing line and we touched.”
One of the hot news that became media discussion that day was the first clash between Marc Marquez and Pecco Bagnaia, which ended in a fall and was deemed a racing incident according to the Stewards Panel, which ultimately did not give sanctions to either of them. “We are together with Career Management. We are two different drivers with different points of view, but we both agreed that there was no penalty. It made me angry because I went home with zero points, but we have to keep going..” he said..
The Turin rider has made it clear that it is always difficult to see the rider next to the rider when going around the hairpin ‘S’ corner, and that is why he was unable to avoid contact with Marquez when the Cervera rider closed his lane at Turn 5… “I didn’t have time I noticed it and didn’t have time to lift my bike, it was difficult to avoid it, but the blow I received made me lose grip on the front and couldn’t do anything. From my point of view, I didn’t do anything risky…”
The rider from Turin chooses not to think about what happened in the second round of the season, although he is aware that, with a difference of 23 points from Martin, he must recover in the next race. Of course, he has a clear goal for the next series, none other than getting closer to Martin, who is the current leader of the standings.
Pecco Bagnaia emphatically admitted his discomfort at the weekend where he once again left the Portimao main race without points. The Italian rider prefers to remain cautious and admits that it is too early to draw conclusions, so he hopes to turn things around. “Like last year, I finished the second race with zero points and this time it was not my fault, but because of a “race incidents. The championship is still long, but I hope to be more consistent than last year. We will go to the next race trying to do our best, I like the track, but I have to take a step forward because this weekend is a little more complicated,” he concluded.
But Pecco continues to believe in the potential of himself and the bike, so he prefers to think that this was just a bad weekend. “I have no doubts about the bike, I know my potential and I know that If I feel good, I won’t even find myself in that position. Everything went the way it was supposed to, I leave here wanting to do better in Austin.”
In this case, he showed that from the start he had not had the confidence he had hoped for in the Desmosedici GP24, so he had to take risks from the start.. “I couldn’t go well and I lost a lot in turns 4 or 5… 0.2 seconds per lap. I tried to make another racing line to have the same speed in the corner as the rider in front of me, but it went wide. We need to understand what happened. I also had some vibration problems starting on the seventh lap and I didn’t expect it it will be that fast,” said Bagnaia.
