MotoGP season thrown away! Francesco Bagnaia's devastating self-assessment
Francesco Bagnaia was the big disappointment of the 2025 MotoGP season. Now he himself draws a devastating conclusion about his performance.
Markus Zörweg
It was the duel the MotoGP world had been anticipating all winter: Marc Marquez versus Francesco Bagnaia . As teammates, in the Ducati factory team. These ingredients promised a true battle of the giants in 2025. But, as we all know, nothing came of it.
Marc Marquez drives Bagnaia into the groundWhile Marquez embarked on an incredible run of success, taking eleven Grand Prix and 14 sprint victories in the 16 race weekends so far this season, Bagnaia is experiencing his worst season since 2020. Just one Grand Prix win and seven Sunday podiums are his meager haul. The two-time MotoGP champion has scored just 24 points in the last four race weekends.
The gap to teammate Marc Marquez in the World Championship has now grown to an incredible 275 points. Because Alex Marquez has also been struggling in the meantime, his brother Marc can become the 2025 MotoGP World Champion this weekend. A resounding slap in the face for teammate Bagnaia, who, however, is acting like a gentleman as usual: "I have no problem with Marc becoming World Champion. It has no impact on my performance. I know my potential."
Francesco Bagnaia states: No solution foundBagnaia himself is also aware that he was virtually never able to deliver on this promise in 2025. "My problem is that I threw away an entire season. The situation was difficult from the very beginning. We never managed to find the right solutions for me. It was inevitable that it had to end this way," he says, already drawing a sobering conclusion about the 2025 season, which still has six race weekends to go.
Hardly anyone believes anymore that Bagnaia can turn things around this season – neither outsiders nor Ducati insiders. The Italian manufacturer is doing everything it can to help the former guarantor of success get back on track. That's why they took a new approach in the Misano test. "We did something we've never tried before," reveals Bagnaia. "It's an unconventional approach, and at first I had a hard time imagining it would work here, but we'll give it a try."
Recently, an unexpected helper even appeared on Bagnaia's side of the Ducati pit box. Find out what he's all about here:
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