{"id":167570,"date":"2025-09-25T07:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167570\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:06:07","slug":"francesco-bagnaia-well-replicate-misano-solutions-at-motegi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167570\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesco Bagnaia: \u201cWe&#8217;ll replicate\u201d Misano solutions at Motegi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Ducati team-mate Marc Marquez has his first chance to seal the 2025 MotoGP title in Japan, Francesco Bagnaia is chasing his first podium in ten rounds.<\/p>\n<p>The double <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> champion has been absent from the rostrum since before the summer break, at Sachsenring, and hasn\u2019t finished higher than seventh as he juggled with set-up during the past four rounds.<\/p>\n<p>But the Italian, now under pressure for third in the championship from Aprilia\u2019s Marco Bezzecchi, reported some \u2018solutions\u2019 to his season-long corner entry woes during the recent Misano test.<\/p>\n<p>The big question now is whether those changes will also prove effective at Motegi, a hard braking circuit where Bagnaia won both races last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the Misano test, we tried a lot of stuff and found some solutions that we&#8217;ll replicate here to see if they can help us gain more confidence in our riding,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/911999\/francesco-bagnaia\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Francesco Bagnaia<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Japanese track is tough, but very beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe atmosphere and the welcome from the fans are special. We&#8217;re working to have a solid weekend and get closer to the top group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bagnaia took twelve top-three finishes, Sprint and Grand Prix, during the opening eleven rounds up to and including Germany.<\/p>\n<p>His only race victory so far this season came at COTA, after Marc Marquez fell from the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Gresini&#8217;s Alex Marquez currently separates Marc and Bagnaia in the world championship standings, and is the #93\u2019s last mathematical title opponent.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Ducati team-mate Marc Marquez has his first chance to seal the 2025 MotoGP title in Japan, Francesco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,17197,8456,7607,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-167570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ducati","11":"tag-ducati-lenovo-team","12":"tag-francesco-bagnaia","13":"tag-motor","14":"tag-motor-sports","15":"tag-motosport","16":"tag-motosports","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}