Bagnaia<\/a> is third in the standings, but there\u2019s a risk that the ascending duo of Marco Bezzecchi and Pedro Acosta could overtake him before the end of the year.<\/p>\n In his current position, he\u2019s set to finish lower than he ever has in the MotoGP<\/a> championship for Ducati\u2019s factory outfit, serving as a reminder of how difficult 2025 has been.<\/p>\n Bagnaia must \u2018trust\u2019 Ducati more<\/a> if he wants to be able to beat teammate Marc Marquez. Under braking, he has been too weak.<\/p>\n After another difficult round in Hungary, Luigi Dall\u2019Igna shared his \u2018important\u2019 verdict on Bagnaia<\/a>. The team haven\u2019t given up on him yet, but results must come soon.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Francesco Bagnaia insists he wants to \u2018crush\u2019 one Ducati rumour at the Hungarian Grand Prix<\/a><\/p>\n The 28-year-old went through a bit of a tough time at Balaton Park. Bagnaia\u2019s \u2018main issue\u2019 has just been exposed<\/a>, but it might be a good thing.<\/p>\n He has eight more events this year to attack the root cause of his woes, and attempt to build some momentum heading into 2026. It will be a contract year for him.<\/p>\n Despite finishing a lowly ninth in Sunday\u2019s Hungarian Grand Prix, The Race\u2019s Simon Patterson says Bagnaia offered a happy verdict after the event.<\/p>\n \u201cHe got to his debrief and he was late. He was the last debrief, about an hour and a half after he was scheduled to turn up for it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhich is exactly what he did on Saturday and whenever he arrived on Saturday, he had like visibly been late because he had been shouting or screaming at someone or maybe not shouting and screaming, because that\u2019s not Pecco. You could tell that the mood was not good. <\/p>\n \u201cThat there had been meetings and things were discussed, and everything was very serious. He called in dead last of the 21 scrums on Sunday afternoon. Popped himself up on the desk in the media centre and sung a little bit to himself while he waited on someone else to finish,\u201d Patterson continued.<\/p>\n \u201cCame over, popped himself down and was sunshine and rainbows, because he says they\u2019ve fixed everything. They made changes to the bike between the disastrous qualifying and the awful sprint on Saturday, that he told us were measured in centimetres, not millimetres. That\u2019s big changes on a MotoGP bike, that\u2019s huge.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Francesco](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2229567272-1024x666.jpg\")
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