• Profile The difficult beginnings of Francesco Bagnaia, World Cup contender: "I lost the desire to ride a motorcycle"

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That motorcycling is a sport as psychological as tennis or golf has been known for months by

Fabio Quartararo,

who lost the World Cup last year because of his own mistakes, because of the anguish of feeling watched, and

Francesco Bagnaia

now knows it

.

Recently Bagnaia was fighting to score with

Brad Binder

or

Iker Lekuona

; Even less ago, this season, as an official Ducati rider, a victory for him in MotoGP seemed impossible; and look at him now. In the last two races, two wins, and he is already the only one capable of challenging Quartararo for the title or, at the very least, of delaying its celebration. For example: in the next race, in two weeks in Austin, the Frenchman will not be able to be champion whatever he does. He will have to wait until a month from now, when the World Cup returns to Europe and specifically to Misano, the same circuit this Sunday.

In Italy, somewhat far from Turin, where he was born, but very close to Pesaro, where he trained, and Borgo Panigale, where he works with Ducati today, Bagnaia underlined his greatest virtue: calm.

In the first laps he took advantage of a sublime start to open an advantage of almost three seconds and in the last, when Quartararo approached him, he maintained his temper to deny him any overtaking.

Beyond the tension due to the Frenchman's comeback, Bagnaia presented himself as a future champion and did so before the thousands of Valentino Rossi fans who in a few months, by inheritance, will be his.

Surely he will not win this title, if he does not suffer any injury within a month or, at most, a month and a half, Quartararo will take the championship, but the Italian has already understood that.

Motorcycling is psychological like tennis or golf, now Bagnaia knows that.

"", xxxxx Bagnaia

"I already knew that with the soft rear. I tried to push like hell at the beginning and in the last 10 laps when I saw Fabio recover, it was difficult for me. Today we were incredible, the team worked perfectly. It was difficult for me to get to the race. first victory and now a second victory "

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