The fight for the World Cup MotoGP It’s a pressure cooker. Bagnaia ‘Pecco’ And Jorge Martin compete for the title knowing that a error at this stage could eliminate any possibility of become world champion.
Motegi was excellent proof of this. A poor ranking for Pramac almost cost him the lead in the general classification. Fortunately for JorgeA a good start allowed him to come back from eleventh to second place by minimizing the “damage”.
‘Pecco“He took the lead on the first lap, from then on he didn’t let go the racing head. The result means that only ten points separate the two drivers with only four great prizes for litigation.
That of Ducati He is aware that it is “all or nothing” and compares his fight with Martín to that of the great drivers of this sport of his time: “We are in a situation where it is easy to make mistakes, we are always on the limit , and in the end we we are playing with less than 10 points for the weekend.”
“It goes back to the time of Valentino, Lorenzo, Pedrosa Stoner then Marquez always finishing in the top 4. We are going in this direction, Jorge and I are always ahead and Marc and Enea have gotten closer. Even today, we made the difference between the four of us,” admitted the Turinese in a press release reported by ‘Motosan’.
Bagnaïa warns how complicated it is to drive under so much pressure: “Knowing that you can’t make mistakesIt was hard (driving). When fighting with another driver, the pace is slower, you can control more, but with a a rhythm like the one we had is difficult“.
