“I know that our potential is so high but it’s three years since we went there so it will be tough at the start.” “I want to do more weekends in Japan like we are doing this second part of the championship and see what happens. “For sure now we are more close and now we can speak more about the championship, but I don’t want to,” he said. Bagnaia, though, is uneasy about any title talk. Just 17 points divide the top three in the title race heading to Motegi for the first MotoGP in Japan since the pandemic.īastianini is not out of the championship fight in fourth, 48 points behind Quartararo. The Italian said he was happy to settle for the 20 points that came with finishing second rather than risk going for broke in the pursuit of 25 points for the win. “I gave my best and I would like to have another fight in Japan,” said the 25-year-old Bagnaia, who is chasing a first MotoGP world title. Ducati rider Bagnaia had ramped up the pressure on Yamaha’s Quartararo by winning four races in a row going into last weekend at Aragon, Spain, where Quartararo made a spectacular and painful first-lap exit after clipping the Honda of six-time world champion Marc Marquez.īagnaia was denied a fifth straight win by Enea Bastianini on the last lap after a nerve-jangling duel, but second place was good enough to tighten the squeeze on the shaken Quartararo and the Italian now has all the momentum. The Frenchman still heads the standings but his lead has been slashed to 10 points by hard-charging Italian Francesco Bagnaia and Spain’s Aleix Espargaro is also firmly in the title hunt. MOTEGI: A thrilling MotoGP season moves to Japan this weekend after world champion Fabio Quartararo crashed in Aragon to blow the title race wide open with five grands prix to go.

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