Dani Pedrosa has recognized the essential Ducati resolution which Pecco Bagnaia has struggled to beat.
Bagnaia truly has scored extra factors in 2025 than on the similar time final 12 months – however he isn’t near teammate Marc Marquez within the MotoGP standings.
Marquez leads the championship and manufacturing unit Ducati teammate Bagnaia is third, 51 factors behind.
Bagnaia, who has extra expertise on the Ducati, has struggled with entrance finish feeling which is in stark distinction to Marquez’s consolation.
Pedrosa, a former teammate and rival of Marquez’s, has noticed the issue.
Dani Pedrosa spots Pecco Bagnaia’s downside
Pecco Bagnaia
“There are two factors: the psychological, which is the primary one he defined, and the media, every little thing that entails the truth that Ducati chooses him, that Ducati needs to have a little bit of that type within the storage, the place you might have each roosters on the similar time,” Pedrosa stated to DAZN.
“Pecco is in an ungainly scenario the place he thinks, ‘Why do I’ve to be right here with Marc now?’
“That is not straightforward to digest, however when the scenario can also be put into actuality, Marc begins to do quick laps, poles, victories, and so forth…
“You progress on to the following zone which is ‘how he does it or why he does it, and why it does not work out for me’.
“That is when your eyes go and also you wish to perceive how the scenario goes with Marc, how he is able to doing these issues.”
Pedrosa added: “Marc and Pecco are two totally different types.
“Marc is an individual who can have a motorbike with suspension springs or with a suspension setting, then with different totally different settings do the identical lap time.
“Then again, Pecco has a method that should have the bike correctly as he likes. And in case you change it, possibly he is not so quick anymore and it is more durable for him to make the occasions.
“However I feel what Pecco is struggling probably the most is that call by Ducati to have Marc within the field.”
Ducati’s name to advertise Marquez from Gresini final 12 months primarily price them Jorge Martin, Enea Bastianini and Marco Bezzecchi.
Pramac additionally ended up leaving Ducati to turn out to be a Yamaha satellite tv for pc staff.
However, to date, Ducati have been justified.
“Proper now Marc, in entrance of his rivals, has two issues which are crucial: velocity, and tempo,” Pedrosa stated.
“As a result of even when somebody is as quick as him, Marc can preserve it for longer.
“Though any rider who can trip at his degree could be a menace, he can maintain it for longer within the race, both by setting, or by another talent that he has not revealed to us proper now.
“However he manages to keep up the occasions for a lot of extra laps.”
