Este domingo de MotoGP will certainly be remembered, especially by Francesco Bagnaia, as he renewed the world title in the category, but today he did it by fulfilling a dream, by winning the race that gave him the final triumph.
In a press conference, the Italian Ducati rider talked about his feelings and how he fulfilled the dream of celebrating the title along with a victory:
– It’s incredible. I feel that my highest level of happiness has never been like this, because… the thing is that I am also very happy because I won the race, and today, in today’s circumstances, it was useless to win, but it was a dream, a goal that I always wanted to fulfill, to win the title with a victory, but it was quite scary because in the last five laps I started to feel cold on the bike and that was very dangerous because of the sensations with the front tire, it was the hard tire. I am very happy and I can finally breathe, it was not an easy day because I was under pressure.
When asked if he felt that defending the title was more complicated than winning it, the #1 responded as follows: ‘It was difficult because last year I came here and I was under even more pressure, honestly. This year I managed the situation very well because I was always thinking only about the races. Yesterday I was unconscious and made a bad choice of the [rear] tire but I was more prepared for today because with the medium tire I already knew more or less what the wear was like and that was useful for me’.
Bagnaia then spoke about how he had some problems at a certain point in the season, and how he has not had the performance he would like since then, especially on Saturdays, not hiding the need to improve: ‘The round in Barcelona was a stop for us, and from that moment on we started to have more difficulties. Not in Misano because it was a week later and my big problem was being able to ride the bike because I was in a lot of pain in my leg. After that moment, I started to have more difficulties with my speed in terms of qualifying, the Sprint races, and in this second part of the season, I always had difficulties in the Sprint races: I was never as fast as I expected or as in the first part of the season, so for next year I will certainly have to improve. In the last races, I took a big step forward, I just had some bad luck, but I am very happy with my team and everything […]’
