MotoGP: Double world champion Francesco Bagnaia stuck his marker in the sand at the start of the Dutch MotoGP weekend, setting a new lap record in qualifying
When the opponent is Francesco Bagnaia and the venue is Assen, excessive post-race analysis , justification for your own result or a list of excuses as to why you couldn’t raise your game is either inappropriate, or falls on deaf ears. So Martin just shrugged his shoulders.“I don’t think today or this weekend I had any chance to be first.”The world championship leader was right. Martin threw everything at Bagnaia for the entire weekend at the Dutch TT, but it didn’t matter.
“As soon as I started this weekend I was feeling fantastic with the bike, and from that moment we move onto understanding tyres,” he said. “It’s great to know, but it’s something you look more when you stop your career,” he said of equalling Stoner’s feat. “We made a big change this morning, the bike seemed to be working pretty well from the warm-up, and I was able to translate that into a decent start to the race and then run the pace.
“That package has is a tried and tested package, and slowly but surely they’re making incremental improvements. We’re trying to do the same, but ours are trying to be larger than what they’re doing.” The post-race sanction explained a bizarre moment early in the race where Marquez, who advanced to third on lap two but was a significant distance behind Bagnaia and Martin up front, rolled out of the throttle on lap seven and gestured for Di Giannantonio to pass him, aware that his front tyre pressure had dropped as he wasn’t racing in the wake of a rider ahead of him and needed the ‘dirty’ air coming off the back of an opponent’s bike to bring his tyre pressure back up.
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