Double MotoGP world champion Pecco Bagnaia admits \u201cI wasn\u2019t recognising myself\u201d at various points this season as he has struggled for form on the factory Ducati.<\/p>\n
The Italian has been a shadow of his former self from the off in 2025 on the GP25, which he has not been able to adapt his riding style to.<\/p>\n
After 18 rounds, Pecco Bagnaia<\/a> has just two grand prix victories to his credit compared to 11 last year, while team-mate Marc Marquez<\/a> ran away with the title on 11 Sunday wins and 14 sprint successes.<\/p>\n With four rounds to go, Bagnaia trails Marquez by 271 points in the standings.<\/p>\n Having made an apparent breakthrough in Japan, where a switch to GP24 parts – in particular the ride height device – helped him to a clean sweep of the event, Bagnaia plummeted to Earth at the Indonesian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n He was almost 30s off the win in last in the sprint and crashed while running at the back in the grand prix in a performance that has raised even more questions about his form this season.<\/p>\n \u201cMy side of the box was working a lot, the engineers were working a lot to try to adapt and try to let me adapt to the bike,\u201d Bagnaia said in a new interview with the official MotoGP website.<\/p>\n \u201cBut it was something that was not clear, that was not adapting to that bike but changing the bike.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was not easy, because when your team-mate is winning and you are doing bad results it\u2019s not easy to believe.<\/p>\n \u201cBut they never stopped working. I wasn\u2019t recognising me – I think nobody recognised me.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cAnd some people started to doubt my potential. I never lost my confidence. I was always sure that my potential was to fight for wins.\u201d<\/p>\n