{"id":48649,"date":"2025-08-06T20:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/48649\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T20:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:11:08","slug":"francesco-bagnaia-sounded-exactly-like-valentino-rossi-when-he-made-one-comment-about-marc-marquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/48649\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesco Bagnaia sounded exactly like Valentino Rossi when he made one comment about Marc Marquez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Marc Marquez\u2019s battle with Francesco Bagnaia was portrayed by some as an indirect continuation of his rivalry with Valentino Rossi. Bagnaia is, after all, the star graduate of the VR46 Academy.<\/p>\n

Marquez and Rossi still haven\u2019t made peace<\/a>, three and a half years after the Doctor\u2019s retirement. The Spaniard is now trying to dislodge him as the most successful rider of the MotoGP era.<\/p>\n

It was thought that Rossi could wage a proxy war on Marquez through Bagnaia<\/a>. There were even suggestions that he could brief the Italian media against the Ant of Cervera.<\/p>\n

\"FrancescoPhoto by Hazrin Yeob Men Shah\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

But the intra-team rivalry at Ducati<\/a> hasn\u2019t really developed. Marquez entered the summer break 168 points clear of Bagnaia at the top of the standings, and he\u2019s beaten him 29 times in competitive sessions.<\/p>\n

Francesco Bagnaia sounds like Valentino Rossi talking about Casey Stoner<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Paddock Pass podcast, journalist David Emmett drew a parallel between Bagnaia<\/a> and Ducati-era Rossi. The Italian spent two years with the Borgo Panigale manufacturer (2011 and 2012).<\/p>\n

While teammate Casey Stoner<\/a> won the championship in the first of those seasons, Rossi only finished seventh, failing to win a race and scoring only one podium. Stoner also outscored him by nearly 100 points in 2012. <\/p>\n

According to Emmett, Rossi<\/a> always used to explain that he couldn\u2019t emulate Stoner\u2019s \u2018very special\u2019 riding style. Bagnaia has been making statements about Marquez. <\/p>\n

Indeed, the two-time world champion admitted in May that Marquez<\/a> could \u2018ride a tractor and be strong\u2019, whereas he needs to have confidence in the front end to show his full potential. Bagnaia has only managed one pole position and one victory in the first 12 races.<\/p>\n

\u201cPecco Bagnaia really reminds me of Valentino Rossi when he went to Ducati,\u201d Emmett explained. \u201cWe used to go into the Ducati hospitality for the media debriefs every time and ask, \u2018Look, Casey was winning on this bike, why can\u2019t you?\u2019. <\/p>\n

\u201cValentino, to his credit, never actually snapped at us. He always said the same thing \u2013 Casey rode this bike in a very special way, and I can\u2019t ride it like that. <\/p>\n

\u201cListening to Pecco saying \u2018I can\u2019t brake, I don\u2019t feel comfortable, I don\u2019t understand why, Marc can do it, I can\u2019t, it\u2019s reminiscent of that sort of issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

How Marc Marquez is ramming his Ducati dominance down Francesco Bagnaia\u2019s \u2018throat\u2019<\/p>\n

Ducati pursued their GP25 concept thanks to Marquez<\/a>, who offered more positive feedback than Bagnaia during testing. The latter would probably have been more inclined to stick with last year\u2019s bike.<\/p>\n

Bagnaia finished a close second to Jorge Martin in the 2024 championship. Alex Marquez has been rapid on the older spec this season and sits between the two factory riders in the standings.<\/p>\n

Mat Oxley feels sorry for Bagnaia<\/a>, who has symbolically surrendered ownership of the team. Marquez has celebrated eight wins this year, including the last five on the bounce.<\/p>\n

When celebrating with his Ducati mechanics on the other side of the garage, he\u2019s accidentally been ramming his success down Bagnaia\u2019s \u2018throat\u2019. The past six months have been the ultimate test of the 28-year-old\u2019s resilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez\u2019s battle with Francesco Bagnaia was portrayed by some as an indirect continuation of his rivalry with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,21588,7607,4280,806,805,803,804,85,20420],"class_list":["post-48649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-casey-stoner","tag-francesco-bagnaia","tag-marc-marquez","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-valentino-rossi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48649","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=48649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}