{"id":702749,"date":"2026-05-29T18:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702749\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:45:10","slug":"mugello-perfect-for-ducati-but-pecco-bagnaia-raises-tyre-consumption-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702749\/","title":{"rendered":"Mugello &#8220;perfect for Ducati&#8221;, but Pecco Bagnaia raises tyre consumption concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pecco Bagnaia was the second of five Ducati riders inside the top six during Friday practice for the Italian MotoGP at Mugello.<\/p>\n<p>The factory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/ducati-lenovo-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ducati<\/a> rider lapped just 0.091s behind VR46\u2019s Fabio di Giannantonio during the afternoon session.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the title-leading Aprilias of Marco Bezzecchi and Jorge Martin were only seventh and eighth on the timesheets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this track suits perfectly to Ducati. And my riding style,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/911999\/francesco-bagnaia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bagnaia<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gng_1317633_hires_1600x900.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Pecco Bagnaia, 2026 Italian MotoGP.. \" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Pecco Bagnaia, 2026 Italian MotoGP..<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Bagnaia\u2019s run of home victories came to a frustrating end when he was pushed off the podium in last year\u2019s grand prix, won by team-mate Marc Marquez.<\/p>\n<p>The former double champion credited recent progress with the handling of his GP26 for the strong Friday form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Jerez I can let the bike turn more. I still need another step, but it&#8217;s already an improvement,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompared to last year when I was struggling quite a lot with turning, this year it&#8217;s helping me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I feel that the bike is making more movement in the entrance of the corners, so we are trying to rebalance it a bit.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut nothing big, because right now I feel good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gng_1318204_hires_1600x900.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Pecco Bagnaia, 2026 Italian MotoGP. \" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Pecco Bagnaia, 2026 Italian MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n<p>Bagnaia\u2019s main concern heading into Saturday is the amount of tyre wear on the soft rear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, we need to understand the tyres. Not the front, because it&#8217;s clear that it will be the medium, but the rear,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did the afternoon session with the soft, this morning with the medium.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the soft rear I feel quite good, but the drop was huge. Very huge. I didn&#8217;t expect something like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the level of grip is worse compared to last year, so we need to set-up everything a bit more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel quite good with the rest. We just need to see the tyre consumption in the sprint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/news\/1096380\/1\/marc-marquez-gives-verdicts-main-surgery-target-after-motogp-comeback\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Marquez was sixth on his return<\/a> to MotoGP action.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pecco Bagnaia was the second of five Ducati riders inside the top six during Friday practice for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702750,"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-702749","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\/702749","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=702749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}