{"id":628651,"date":"2026-04-24T21:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628651\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T21:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:29:09","slug":"pecco-bagnaia-destroyed-bike-with-important-modification-in-jerez-motogp-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628651\/","title":{"rendered":"Pecco Bagnaia \u201cdestroyed\u201d bike with important \u201cmodification\u201d in Jerez MotoGP practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pecco Bagnaia began Friday afternoon practice at Jerez with a \u201cmodification\u201d to his factory Ducati, also used by eventual Friday leader Alex Marquez.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Bagnaia, he crashed just minutes into the hour after being caught out in the braking zone for Turn 1, with the Gresini rider just ahead of him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis afternoon I started with a modification that Alex also fitted for the session, but unfortunately, I immediately destroyed that bike and wasn&#8217;t able to test it as we should have,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/911999\/francesco-bagnaia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Bagnaia<\/a> told Sky Italia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a shame because I think it could have given us a lot of help, but we&#8217;ll try it again tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Explaining his accident, Bagnaia said: \u201cUnfortunately, that was the out lap, and I braked quite hard because I had Alex in front.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was still slowly building up the pace, and I found myself having to brake a bit more aggressively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe front wasn&#8217;t ready, and it locked up pretty early. It just meant I tore the bike apart [in the gravel trap].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gng_1306308_hires.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Pecco Bagnaia, Friday practice crash, 2026 Spanish MotoGP.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.62\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Pecco Bagnaia, Friday practice crash, 2026 Spanish MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n<p>Returning on his second bike, Bagnaia set a competitive pace on used tyres, then claimed sixth (+0.561s) during his time attacks to safely progress to Qualifying 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though I was using a bike that wasn&#8217;t exactly ideal, I was able to have a pace similar to the fast riders, and that&#8217;s important,\u201d Bagnaia said.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd after, the time attack, it was a bit chaotic, but being ahead was crucial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Factory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/ducati-lenovo-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ducati <\/a>team-mate and reigning champion Marc Marquez was just ahead of Bagnaia, in fourth on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> timesheets.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pecco Bagnaia began Friday afternoon practice at Jerez with a \u201cmodification\u201d to his factory Ducati, also used by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628652,"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":["post-628651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ducati","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\/628651","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=628651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}