The Italian couldn't understand the reason for the crash that took him out of the German GP still on the third lap of the race. The Ducati driver remembered that he had more pace and more speed than his Yamaha rival, but, even so, the World Championship leader won and he dropped out once again
Francesco Bagnaia left the German MotoGP GP on Sunday (19) shaken. After registering his fourth zero in the 2022 season, the Italian Ducati rider assessed that Fabio Quartararo is a "more complete" rider than him.
After standing out throughout the weekend and taking pole at Sachsenring, Pecco lost the lead to Fabio on the dip at turn 1, but had been shadowing the Nice rider in an attempt to regain the lead. At the opening of the third lap, however, Bagnaia lost the rear end of the Desmosedici at the exit of turn 1 and crashed, abandoning for the third time in the last four races.
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As a result, Francesco, who came into 2022 as a title favorite, now sits sixth in the World Riders' Championship standings, 91 points behind Quartararo, the standings leader.
In addition to being shaken by the new abandonment, Pecco was especially annoyed that he still doesn't have an explanation for the crash at the very beginning of the German GP.
"I'm trying to relive, I don't know, replay in my mind what happened. And there's no way I can remember my crash," Bagnaia said. "For sure, if I fell, it's because I made a mistake. Certainly. But in this situation, it is very difficult to know the reason, to understand the reason. Looking at the data, it's impossible to understand things," he followed.
"I can't explain it. I am very angry about this, because when you fall and you know what your mistake was, I am usually very self-critical. But today I can't be, because I can't imagine why I fell," he commented. "It's harder to understand, harder to accept. The only positive thing is that once again we were at the top and we were fast... and I also think that, looking at the pace, our potential was high," he assessed.
"But it was once again where Fabio showed that he is more complete than me," he assumed.
Asked in which aspect Quartararo is more complete, Bagnaia replied: "In finishing the races. Because he is always on top. He never makes mistakes. For sure. Maybe his bike helps him to make fewer mistakes. I don't know. If you look at his bike and the combination of the two, they are strong in lap launch, strong in pace, strong in the race, it's more complete because of that."
"I have four zeroes this year. This weekend I was competitive, I was faster than him. But he won and I crashed," he summarized.
Bagnaia explained that at that point in the German GP he was not pushing excessively, as he did not plan to attack Fabio again after the failed attempt on lap two. The plan was to postpone the fight until the final laps.
"I did 70 laps a day, more than 70 laps. In none of them did I feel anything close to that. It never happened in my life to fall like that. Only at the Ranch. But at Rancho I'm on an endurance track, so it's easy to happen," he pondered. "It's hard to know why. My lean angle was the same. The speed was the same. I was facing more towards the exit. It's very hard to understand why I crashed," he insisted.
"That's the hardest thing at the moment, because maybe our bike, all the bikes now, are living on an edge like that and if you escape the line, you fall. But today my crash was very, very on the edge," he closed.
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