Pecco Bagnaia admits his difficulties with Ducati’s 2025 MotoGP bike have reached the purpose the place he’s now “one of many worst” on the grid at defending his place.
Bagnaia’s points with the GP25 are well-documented, with the two-time world champion having already given up hope of combating his new teammate Marc Marquez for the title this 12 months.
Specifically, the Italian has discovered it exhausting to decelerate the bike and enter the corners the best way he want to.
Bagnaia believes this braking weak spot is making it more and more straightforward for different riders to move him and demote him additional down the pack, when he beforehand took delight in efficiently holding off his rivals.
“I have been complaining about braking and nook entry issues for some time now, since Thailand,” the manufacturing unit Ducati rider instructed Sky Italia.
“I’ve at all times been very troublesome to overhaul, or at the least anybody who’s tried to overhaul me has at all times gone large, however now the scenario has reversed. I am one of many worst, everybody overtakes me in braking, I am unable to brake exhausting.
“When I attempt to brake exhausting, both somebody closes in on me from the straight or I am going large, so I actually wrestle in that half.
“It is exhausting to know as a result of when I attempt to brake exhausting as I might like, there isn’t any approach to cease the bike, and once I brake extra gently for the space, I wrestle to show in. So it is a very troublesome limbo to handle.”
When Marquez is now nearly out of sight, Bagnaia has made it clear that he needs to proceed his document of ending inside the highest two within the championship relationship again to 2021.
Whereas Gresini’s Alex Marquez sits 48 factors clear in second place in the course of the summer time break, Bagnaia nonetheless has 10 weekends remaining to shut the hole to the Spaniard.
Whereas the 2025 season hasn’t gone his manner to this point, Bagnaia mentioned the onus is on him and Ducati to discover a answer for his or her troubles and placed on a greater present within the latter half of the marketing campaign.
“Finally, we all know the challenge, regardless that I really feel like I do not comprehend it that nicely this 12 months,” mentioned Bagnaia, who has scored only one win to this point in 2025.
“However finally, it is in our palms. We’re making an attempt all the pieces, and nothing’s serving to us enhance that space, so I actually suppose the DNA of this bike is not 100% suited to my request up entrance.
“However we now have to persevere; the strategy and the objective have modified a bit throughout this primary a part of the season.
“We began out to win the championship, however proper now, we now have to be practical; it is troublesome to consider combating towards Marc on this situation, and even for the title.
“So we now have to begin from one other level, attempt to meet up with Alex, who’s the rider in entrance of me, then enhance and enhance till the top to attempt to be prepared for subsequent 12 months.”
