{"id":88381,"date":"2025-08-22T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/88381\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T21:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T21:00:08","slug":"why-motogps-newest-track-may-be-bagnaias-worst-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/88381\/","title":{"rendered":"Why MotoGP’s newest track may be Bagnaia’s worst in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pecco Bagnaia has not had a good MotoGP campaign in 2025 – but Friday at the Hungarian Grand Prix still looked out of step even with his generally diminished performance this year.<\/p>\n

While team-mate Marc Marquez was rooted to first or second place for most of the running, Bagnaia was scarcely troubling the top 10 – and came up short in his late push<\/a> to bag a Q2 spot in the end.<\/p>\n

He’d had one of his laps compromised by yellow flags for a Johann Zarco crash, but was improving compared to that lap on his final effort – which still could’ve been enough to usurp Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo in 10th place if not for a botched final sector.<\/p>\n

Still, that would’ve only been a consolation for a rider who still feels totally hamstrung by the subtle changes from last year’s Ducati to the GP25 spec he’s been riding this year.<\/p>\n

Bagnaia was actually the fastest of the Ducati MotoGP riders when they came to Balaton Park earlier to try it out with the road-going Ducati Panigales – but said he already knew at that point this would not translate into good MotoGP form.<\/p>\n

\"Pecco<\/p>\n

“After I tested here with the Panigale, and I was feeling comfortable with the Panigale – but I was already knowing that with the GP25 I could have some issues. <\/p>\n

“Because every time I need to stop the bike in a short distance and I need to let the bike turn with brakes, it’s where I’m struggling the most with this bike. All the corners here are like this. <\/p>\n

“I already knew it before – accepting that I could’ve been out of the top 10, out of the potential to fight for the win. We just need to work.”<\/p>\n

Bagnaia will contest Q1 for a third time in 2025 tomorrow. He turned his two previous Q1 appearances into third on the grid in Thailand and pole position at Brno.<\/p>\n

\"Pecco<\/p>\n

He and his crew “already did a step” between the two Friday sessions and “halved the gap between me and first” – but optimism seems in short supply that he can do much more than just secure and consolidate a place in the top 10.<\/p>\n

Told that it’s ‘shocking’ to see him set a modest target of the top 10, and then fall short of that target, Bagnaia said: “It’s also shocking for me to struggle like this on braking. But it’s like this, in the last eight months it’s been like this. <\/p>\n

“I’m already fighting in different ways to find the solution, that’s quite far, but I’m there fighting, because I don’t want to give up and I want just to find the potential that is quite difficult for me. <\/p>\n

“But it’s there. Marc is the only one that is using the potential of this bike, so I just need to use it.”<\/p>\n

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