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Lately, it doesn't happen often to see Bagnaia's name in the lower reaches of the standings, but it happened on the first day of testing at Mandalika. But when Pecco showed up in front of the journalists he was relaxed and smiling, not at all worried about his 22nd place. "I was the only one not to use the soft tyre, I did my best time with a medium tyre with 16 laps, this helps us to understand a lot of things" he immediately set the record straight.
So was it a good day?
“I felt good, I like this track: it has a different design than usual and I enjoyed it. We did a good job taking the medium tyre to the end of its life. By mounting the soft I would have been much faster and I was planning to do it eventually, but it started to rain. The important thing was to understand the track and the new bike ".
Did you succeed?
“It's good to test on a new track, even if in the conditions we found it was difficult to do everything right. The circuit in the morning was a disaster, then it gradually improved, tomorrow will be even better, but I think only on Sunday it will be perfect. I would like to have more days of testing in Qatar, but that's the way it goes this year. "
Do you think the same problems could recur on the race weekend?
“Today you had to be very precise in your trajectories, it was a disaster as soon as you put the wheels off the clean line. Doing a long run was impossible, you were sure to crash. I hope that for the Grand Prix we will find a better situation, but it’s going to be difficult, because they are doing a lot of work around the circuit and they are bringing dust to the track. During the weekend we will still be forced to lap, there will be a lot of bikes on the track, it will be a bit like in Qatar ".
You also crashed…
“Just a slide caused by too much confidence. I did a lot of laps and if I look at my pace, I went really fast, in a test it counts up to a certain point but it's a good indication for the race ”.
In the end, do you like this track?
"It reminds me a bit of those in Argentina and Thailand, it's a good circuit. I really like the second sector, riding in those fast corners really gives a lot of pleasure ”.
