Francesco Bagnaia used smoking Motegi MotoGP engine in Mandalika

There weren’t many positives for Francesco Bagnaia throughout a stunning Indonesian MotoGP weekend.

The Italian was left devastated after plummeting from an ideal double victory at Motegi, the place he reverted to older GP24 components, to final within the Mandalika Dash and Grand Prix races.

Bagnaia’s nightmare weekend was full when he crashed from the again of the sector on lap 8 of Sunday’s race.

The one sliver of excellent information was that the smoke puffing from his Desmosedici on the way in which to victory in Japan wasn’t terminal.

“I did not know concerning the smoke,” Bagnaia had mentioned in Motegi. “I simply felt a bit much less efficiency within the final four-five laps on the exit of some corners. However the lap occasions have been there. I am simply glad to not get any [black and orange flag]!”

Bagnaia, who first used the ‘Motegi’ engine on Saturday in Catalunya, had it fitted to one in every of his machines once more on Friday and Saturday morning in Indonesia.

His different GP25 was powered by an older engine, lively since Qatar and used for ultimate apply in Japan. Bagnaia then raced the ‘Qatar’ engine within the Indonesian Dash, earlier than switching to the ‘Motegi’ engine for Sunday’s warm-up and Grand Prix.

To this point, Bagnaia has opened all seven allowed engines up to now, with solely the very first withdrawn from use, in Catalunya, when the ‘Motegi’ engine was launched.

All MotoGP riders can have an additional engine obtainable in the course of the ultimate 4 rounds, beginning at Phillip Island subsequent weekend.

Ducati, Aprilia and KTM are thus restricted to eight engines, with the identical design, over the complete 22-round season. Honda and Yamaha, in concession group D, have the choice of ten engine adjustments per rider and are free to change the design.

The next checklist exhibits the variety of engines ‘opened’ and ‘withdrawn’ by every rider to this point…