Pecco Bagnaia, MotoGP world champion, reveals the real turning point of his victorious season with Ducati.
Pecco Bagnaia is the new world leader on two wheels after winning the MotoGP title in Valencia. He fills a gap of 15 years for Ducati, after the first and only success of Casey Stoner, and brings the scepter of the Top Class back to Italy, after Valentino Rossi’s last triumph in 2009 on the Yamaha M1. The Turin rider has emulated his teacher four years after his first world title in Moto2.
It was not easy to conclude a psychological race like the one at the Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, where it was essential not to make mistakes. He took advantage of the large advantage accumulated in the second part of the championship to administer in the last Grand Prix, embarked on a nice tussle with Fabio Quartararo in the first few laps, until the realization of a dream he had as a child.
Pecco Bagnaia makes a booty full of prizes
The breaking of a flap after a contact with the French of the Yamaha complicated Pecco’s last race of the season. “I was very worried that I could fall due to the missing winger and that Fabio would become world champion if he won – underlined the Ducati champion -. I started counting the remaining laps during the race, but when I crossed the line and saw that I was world champion, it was an incredible feeling. I stopped and started crying like a baby“.
Not only did it take home the world title of the MotoGP, but has signed a record comeback, recovering 91 points on Fabio Quartararo after the crash at Sachsenring. Before the summer break he scored a victory in the Dutch Grand Prix, the real turning point immediately after his return to Silverstone, when something also changed on a technical level on his Desmosedici GP22. “I found a way to be more consistent after the Silverstone GP and I think that was the key. Because I was able to bridge the gap from Fabio more and more“.
Not only fast in the race, but also in qualifying, one of the keys to Pecco Bagnaia’s success. After winning the BMW M Award, which earned him the keys to one BMW M3 Competition Touring, the official Ducati rider also won the “Tissot Pole of Poles” award, winning a Tissot PRX Powermatic 80 – 18k gold bezel. The pupil of the VR46 Academy he was tied with Pramac’s Jorge Martin with five pole positions, but as he gained more front row starts, the Ducati factory rider received the award from Alina Macias, Tissot’s Spanish brand manager.
