Bagnaia started the Silverstone race from second on the grid, but as the laps went by it became a nightmare. The Ducati rider had shown good pace throughout the weekend, but did not make it past 14th at the finish line.
The #63 had the same tires as Fabio Quartararo – soft front and medium rear – which created some problems that he could not specify. In the early stages of the race he was fighting for podium positions, but little by little he was losing ground, although he did not attribute it to the choice of tires.
“It is quite clear that something has not worked, because my pace was very good all weekend. In the last laps I was riding like a Moto2. I also did some runs with used tires and I was three seconds faster than today [Sunday]. So I don’t really know what happened, we have to check the data, talk to Michelin , but in a championship like this, where we are at the top of motorcycling, I think all parts of the bike have to be up to date. maximum”.
“I don’t know about the others, but as far as we’re concerned I think everything has worked out well this weekend. Maybe in Austria we had a different carcass that gave us more problems. But this weekend only Jack [Miller] had problems in Qualifying and me today. I also saw that Valentino [Rossi] had problems, so I don’t know. You have to talk well with Michelin to understand what’s wrong. I went long in turn 7 because I lost the rear in the I felt very good with the striker, the whole weekend I felt good with the soft, I had done my best times with that compound and my feelings were incredible, so the good thing was to use the soft striker today, but not I can say the same for the butt.
Bagnaia’s result at Silverstone leaves him 70 points behind the championship leader, Quartararo, and his title chances are increasingly slim.
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“It’s the second time in three races that I’ve lost points. We didn’t get good results, not because of us. Fabio has a good gap. Now Fabio has already won the championship. 70 points is a lot to recover. We don’t lose the ambition to try to win, it will be very difficult and it is very difficult like this. We do a good job all weekend and then something happens in the race that you cannot go fast. We will do everything to be ahead of him, but the truth is that in this At the moment he is the strongest, he is always ahead and has no problems in different situations. So we must always think positive and try to be ahead”.
“It’s frustrating, because last week we got a good result and it was very important to keep taking points away from Quartararo. A situation like this is very difficult, because I was strong and competitive all weekend and my pace was very good. Anyway , Fabio swept everyone with the soft striker, while I felt good all weekend with the soft striker, I used it in qualifying. Mir, for example, hardly ever used it, always used the medium. We were fine with he finished.
