{"id":18632,"date":"2025-07-24T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18632\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:42:10","slug":"more-details-of-pecco-bagnaias-brno-motogp-electrical-issue-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18632\/","title":{"rendered":"More details of Pecco Bagnaia\u2019s Brno MotoGP electrical issue emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ducati has offered more details on the electrical issue that thwarted Pecco Bagnaia during last weekend\u2019s MotoGP Czech Grand Prix sprint race.<\/p>\n<p>The double world champion qualified on pole for last weekend\u2019s 12th round of the 2025 season at Brno and was on course for at least a second-place finish in the sprint.<\/p>\n<p>But on the fifth lap of 10, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/911999\/francesco-bagnaia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pecco Bagnaia<\/a> was seen slowing down to let other riders get ahead of him in response to warnings on his dashboard that his front tyre pressure was too low.<\/p>\n<p>He eventually finished the sprint in seventh, but later noted that the warnings never went away and he was convinced he would receive a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Data analysis showed, however, that there was a problem with his bike\u2019s electronics and this wrongly displayed a tyre warning message.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/ducati-lenovo-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ducati<\/a>\u2019s \u2018Inside\u2019 series posted after the Czech Grand Prix, electronics engineer Gabriele Conti explains that the issues started on the way to the grid and the team\u2019s fix created an unexpected new problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an unlucky day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had an electronic issue on the sighting lap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the grid we tried to fix it. It was a little bit tricky, but anyway we managed the situation and we fixed it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the first problem generated another problem that was impossible to recognise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we had a big issue during the sprint race. It\u2019s a matter of wrong message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, for sure it was very confusing for Pecco. It was impossible to manage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are sad for this. But anyway, the performance was good, so [it was] our fault, I apologise to Pecco.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1654\/marc-marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Marquez<\/a> was also forced to drop back because of a tyre pressure warning, though his was legitimate and he was able manage the situation.<\/p>\n<p>He won the sprint and was cleared of any wrongdoing after the chequered flag when an initial investigation was wrongly triggered by a problem with race direction\u2019s tyre pressure monitoring system.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ducati has offered more details on the electrical issue that thwarted Pecco Bagnaia during last weekend\u2019s MotoGP Czech&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,8456,7607,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-18632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ducati-lenovo-team","tag-francesco-bagnaia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632","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=18632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}