‘Pecco Bagnaia managed his resources and energy with absolute mastery’ – Gigi Dall’Igna

Francesco Bagnaia achieved victory at last Sunday’s German GP of MotoGP, marking his fourth consecutive win and sixth in nine rounds of the year so far. The Ducati rider definitively took the lead on the penultimate lap, capitalizing on Jorge Martín’s (Prima Pramac/Ducati) fall after chasing the rival for much of the race.

Gigi Dall’Igna, Ducati Corse’s general manager, showered the two-time champion of the premier class with praise, writing on LinkedIn: ‘His sixth MotoGP win of the season, the fourth consecutive, setting an extraordinary «poker», is another masterpiece that bears the champion’s hallmark. It is also his first victory at Sachsenring as well as his last… as a bachelor! There couldn’t have been a better occasion to disprove this taboo as well as to set a new record for wins with Ducati and to take the lead in the World Championship standings, at the expense of an ever combative, fast and indomitable Martín’.

The Italian engineer then spoke about Bagnaia’s race management: ‘Pecco yet again managed his resources and energy with absolute mastery, always believing in himself, lucidly biding his time and then closing in on the lead lap after lap, optimising and chiselling each lap with painstaking «craftsmanship». Let’s not forget that he was also pushing the limits by setting a relentless pace, but he managed to keep in store that extra something that made the difference in the end. A victory that was the combination of head and heart together’.

Commenting further on the German GP winner’s race, Dall’Igna said: ‘Pecco is perfectly aware of when he has to attack and when instead he has to manage, almost sensing what is about to happen: but it is his talent, speed and the courage to take that further step that completes him as an absolute champion. He knows how to win both by setting a hammering pace from start to finish, unsustainable for others, and by imposing more «reasoned» races like this one, on a track where, moreover, we were definitively not favoured’.