{"id":9970,"date":"2025-07-21T04:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/9970\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T04:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:02:19","slug":"brake-problems-again-behind-lack-of-pace-for-francesco-bagnaia-at-motogp-czech-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/9970\/","title":{"rendered":"Brake problems again behind lack of pace for Francesco Bagnaia at MotoGP Czech GP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Francesco Bagnaia<\/a> qualified on pole for the MotoGP Czech Grand Prix thanks to a miraculous lap that nobody saw coming, as well as yellow flag madness that stopped any potential challengers from improving.<\/p>\n

However, he didn’t walk away with even a podium from either the sprint race or the main race during the Brno weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bagnaia reckons his brakes were the problem, having troubled him all year with the factory Ducati rider now 168 points off championship leader and team-mate Marc Marquez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“This time it was a bit different,” said Bagnaia after the main race. “I was able in the last part of the race to be faster, so this is the only improvement I did.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBut honestly, I was always one of the hardest to overtake in the past, one of the strongest under braking. Right now, I’m very slow at this point; everyone is better than me.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is overtaking me on braking like it’s easy [for them]. We need to understand this thing as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

“I always put all my effort on braking because I knew my performance was coming from the braking, and right now it’s one of the slowest things I have, so we need to improve.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s difficult to think what to improve because it’s from the first race that we didn’t change at all, but we are trying to solve it.”<\/p>\n

\"Francesco <\/p>\n

Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati Team<\/p>\n

Photo by: Qian Jun \/ MB Media \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Rewinding a few races, at the Aragon GP, Bagnaia fitted 355mm brake discs instead of the 340mm ones he was running up until that point during the weekend.<\/p>\n

The change seemed to improve his confidence on Sunday and allowed him to finish on the podium in the main race at the Motorland circuit.<\/p>\n

Bagnaia isn’t running the 355mm discs anymore but explained that other changes on the bike bring a similar effect in feel, even if the bike is still a handful.<\/p>\n

“We just changed the pump on the lever,” explained the Italian. “It’s doing what the 355mm [discs] were doing, so I feel better with that. I can manage it better, I can control it better, but it’s still very tough.<\/p>\n

“I have a lot of movement, a lot of locking, and it’s difficult to brake as I want. Last year I was always braking super hard, making a lot of slides, and the back was stopping a lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis season, I need to be very precise, very straight the moment I start to brake, and I can’t have any sliding because the rear is not helping to stop.”<\/p>\n

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