“We will change just the rear tyre and I think everything will be okay.”
followed up his ‘best Friday of the season’ with second place in Saturday practice at COTA, then fourth in qualifying.
Nonetheless, Bagnaia’s race began to unravel as soon as the red lights went out with the front wheel of the Italian’s Desmosedici lurching into the air, and rear spinning, as he slipped back to tenth place after the opening turns. “At the start the rear started to spin, then I had a wheelie, so I had to retake the clutch and was in seventh position. Then in corner 2 I had to brake a lot because Jack had some movements, so another three riders overtook me,” Bagnaia explained.
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