While 2025 will be remembered as the year of Marc Marquez's miraculous resurrection, the other half of the Ducati garage experienced a very different story. Pecco Bagnaia, a two-time Ducati champion and a figure of stability since 2022, went through what Gigi Dall'Igna almost euphemistically calls an "extremely difficult" season.
Two victories, only one sprint won, then the gradual fall in the championship MotoGP finishing fifth overall, and most importantly, not a single Sunday finish in the last five races. A downward spiral that began at the end of the summer: zero points at Misano, then results outside the top 5 in Hungary, Barcelona, Austria… A slide that slowed down the man who, from 2020 to 2024, had been the most successful rider in MotoGP.
Dall'Igna It does not hide the facts… nor their injustice.
« Pecco was very unlucky, especially in the latter part of the championship: the team did not collect as much as it could have, even in less than optimal conditions. Things should certainly have turned out differently.But if you add bad luck to the equation, everything becomes more difficult, for both the team and the driver. »
Gigi Dall’Igna: “ With Pecco Bagnaia, we must take advantage of this recent past and cherish what has happened »
But where others might see the beginning of doubt, Dall'IgnaHe, however, sees a vaccine. A future engine.
« I am convinced that we must treat these situations as if they were antibodies, to draw on even greater determination and become what we were. »
The director of Ducati Corse even calls for transforming this storm into inner strength:
« In 2026, we will inevitably face significant unknowns. So we might as well learn from this recent past and cherish what has happened. A lesson to be learned »
Pecco He fell, but he never stopped moving forward. He endured a cursed year without ever giving up. What if 2025 was the necessary transformation before the counterattack?
