{"id":2490162,"date":"2025-04-02T17:14:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2490162\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T17:14:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:14:31","slug":"in-argentina-we-werent-as-perfect-and-competitive-as-we-want-francesco-bagnaia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2490162\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018In Argentina, we weren&#8217;t as perfect and competitive as we want\u2019 \u2013 Francesco Bagnaia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the MotoGP season has fallen short of Francesco Bagnaia\u2019s expectations \u2013 as he was unable to fight for victories in Thailand and Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the GP of the Americas, the Ducati rider sits third in the championship and now faces a circuit where his teammate, Marc M\u00e1rquez, has historically been one of the strongest.<\/p>\n<p>Bagnaia commented in a statement: \u2018The atmosphere in Austin is always special. A very long track, one of the most demanding on the calendar both physically and in terms of riding, with 20 corners. In 2023 I scored a nice win in the Sprint, while last year I have struggled more\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian admitted he\u2019s not in the form he would like to be: \u2018In Argentina we scored two solid placings, but we weren\u2019t as perfect and competitive as we want. We need to continue working with the Team to find good riding feelings again\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the MotoGP season has fallen short of Francesco Bagnaia\u2019s expectations \u2013 as he was unable to figh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2490163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[785161],"tags":[786232,133793,786233,786234,370329,786235,23370],"class_list":{"0":"post-2490162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-argentina","8":"tag-americas-gp","9":"tag-argentina","10":"tag-ducati-team","11":"tag-francesco-bagnaia","12":"tag-motogp","13":"tag-motogp-austin","14":"tag-23370"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/114269497965457179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}