{"id":44409,"date":"2025-08-05T03:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T03:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/44409\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T03:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T03:57:15","slug":"francesco-bagnaia-really-raging-at-ducati-over-marc-marquez-issue-hes-now-been-forced-to-accept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/44409\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesco Bagnaia ‘really raging’ at Ducati over Marc Marquez issue he’s now been forced to accept"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Francesco Bagnaia\u2019s first half of the 2025 MotoGP season couldn\u2019t have gone much worse at Ducati.<\/p>\n

He has notched just one victory after teammate Marc Marquez<\/a> made a critical mistake at the Americas Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

On merit, Bagnaia<\/a> just hasn\u2019t had the pace to win and has been even slower than Alex Marquez on a one-year-old GP24 for much of the season, too.<\/p>\n

Every solution Ducati<\/a> have tried just doesn\u2019t seem to work. It\u2019s going to be a case of waiting until 2026 for improvements.<\/p>\n

Michele Pirro feels \u2018sorry\u2019 for Bagnaia<\/a>, and the test rider believes that his team could have backed him even further in his pursuit of success.<\/p>\n

With an eye on the future, Ducati have \u2018been seen\u2019 speaking to an \u2018outstanding\u2019 rider<\/a> who could replace Bagnaia in 2027 if results fail to improve.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: What Francesco Bagnaia said in Ducati\u2019s Czech Grand Prix debrief with Marc Marquez now over 150 points ahead<\/a><\/p>\n

\"FrancescoPhoto by Mirco Lazzari gp\/Getty ImagesFrancesco Bagnaia left \u2018really raging\u2019 at Ducati over Marc Marquez\u2019s pace early in 2025<\/p>\n

Bagnaia was visibly furious with his Ducati crew<\/a> just before the summer break at the Czech Grand Prix. He now trails by 168 points and is third in the standings.<\/p>\n

With the season set to draw to a close in just over three months, Bagnaia doesn\u2019t think Ducati can fix a critical issue<\/a> with his bike. He\u2019s resigned to his fate.<\/p>\n

And Mat Oxley believes that it took him a few races to also resign to his teammate\u2019s form. Marquez beat him so convincingly and it left him \u2018really raging\u2019 at first.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of feel that, which quite often happens when a rider has a bad start to a season when they were expecting a good start,\u201d he said on the Oxley Bom MotoGP podcast. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re really kind of traumatised for the first four or five races and kind of raging inside. They don\u2019t know what the f\u2014- is going on. Then they kind of just get used to it and they accept it. <\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, that\u2019s what Bagnaia has done. He was really raging at the first few races and now he\u2019s just accepted it, and he\u2019s also accepted that he\u2019s getting his a\u2014- kicked by Marc Marquez.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE: \u2018Frustrated\u2019 Francesco Bagnaia \u2018didn\u2019t expect\u2019 one MotoGP rival to fly past him in Czech Sprint, claims Carlos Checa<\/a><\/p>\n

What can Francesco Bagnaia do to beat Marc Marquez?<\/p>\n

The GP25 bike seems to be a machine that only one man can extract the most from. Both Bagnaia and Fabio Di Giannantonio have struggled on it otherwise.<\/p>\n

With homologation rules in place for 2026, reverting back to the GP24 could be an option too, but it would feel like taking a few steps back.<\/p>\n

Bagnaia has now realised his reality<\/a> that beating Marquez is almost impossible to achieve. He is so good in so many areas.<\/p>\n

If a change in machinery fails to spark anything, then it may be time to seek alternative solutions for the future to get back to his next form. There will be plenty of seats open for 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Francesco Bagnaia\u2019s first half of the 2025 MotoGP season couldn\u2019t have gone much worse at Ducati. He has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,17197,7607,4280,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-44409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ducati","tag-francesco-bagnaia","tag-marc-marquez","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44409","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=44409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}