Ducati staff boss Davide Tardozzi says Pecco Bagnaia is “not below stress” and the marque “trusts him” to rebound after his poor begin to MotoGP 2025
Having received 11 grands prix in 2024, double world champion Pecco Bagnaia hasn’t come near scoring any victories in 2025’s opening two rounds.
He was 2.398s behind Thai Grand Prix winner Marc Marquez in third, and was 5.5s adrift in fourth as his manufacturing unit Ducati team-mate as soon as once more took victory.
Now 31 factors behind within the championship, Bagnaia has already spoken about reverting to the complete GP24-spec Ducati from subsequent weekend’s Americas GP to attempt to discover his type once more.
Pecco Bagnaia cannot “waste” alternative of excellent factors regardless of early 2025 struggles
Tardozzi insists Ducati is “lacking one thing” in understanding why Bagnaia is struggling, significantly on the entrance finish of the GP25, however is assured he’ll get on phrases with Marquez quickly.
“I simply spoke with Pecco,” he informed TNT Sport after the Argentina GP.
“The small, small downside on the bike that didn’t give him the fitting feeling on the left corners.
“However in the long run we belief him and we look forward to him for one or two extra races and I’m positive he will probably be again.
“Yeah, we all know that COTA is form of a dream half for Marc Marquez. However Qatar we do anticipate Pecco will probably be there combating with him for the win.
“It’s a really tough job to assist him, however even for him to maintain centered on the most effective positions he’s doing – third place, fourth place, to gather factors as a result of will probably be the time that he’ll achieve factors and he should not waste them.”
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Tardozzi added: “I don’t assume that he’s below stress.
“There’s something that we haven’t understood but, not even him.
“There’s something that we miss on the settings, there’s something that we miss serving to him, there’s something now we have to speak about.
“And I believe quickly we are going to discover it as a result of I believe Pecco shouldn’t be driving like the tip of final yr and he has no confidence on the entrance in any respect.
“And that’s the issue that we see on the information, in comparison with final yr.”
Tardozzi additionally famous that Ducati is working with Bagnaia on a brand new technique for race weekends to attempt to get him to hit the bottom working from Fridays.
“We have already got some chat with Gigi [Dall’Igna] and the engineers and Pecco too, and we are going to do one thing. I’m positive that we are going to assist him.”
