Francesco Bagnaia dismisses latest rumors: "faux posts of me in blue leathers”

After being comprehensively overshadowed by Marc Marquez to date in 2025, the cloud surrounding Francesco Bagnaia’s future at Ducati has refused to blow over as he addresses hypothesis linking him to Yamaha.

Speaking to the media on Friday, Bagnaia addressed the rumours of him becoming a member of the manufacturing unit Yamaha squad to set the file straight.

“That I don’t perceive why as a result of when there’s a contract, there’s a contract signed,” stated Bagnaia, who has Ducati contract till 2026. “I instructed you Thursday in Silverstone that I’ll by no means stop what I signal and that is one thing I by no means change in my life.

“I need to keep at Ducati, Ducati needs me to remain until they end off this contract and the subsequent one so I don’t know why I am seeing plenty of [fake] posts of me in blue leathers! It’s true {that a} rider like me that’s, not in disaster, however in some laborious second, individuals can begin pondering ‘perhaps he’ll go’ but it surely’s not what is occurring proper now to me.”

Maybe disaster can be an excessively harsh approach of describing Bagnaia’s Friday in preparation for the Aragon Grand Prix, however there isn’t a hiding that the MotoGP two-time world champion by no means seemed comfy out on monitor, regardless that he pursued varied options.

Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati Group

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“We try various things,” defined the 28-year-old. “It’s not a simple scenario because the bike is identical one as within the earlier races so we’re looking for completely different options. As we speak we determined to with the lengthy forks and the sensation was the identical so I didn’t really feel something higher.”

When requested how he was adopting his using fashion to the Ducati’s issues, Bagnaia described the problems he was experiencing with getting his bike stopped.

“The bike shouldn’t be working so I have to strive completely different options and the one in all braking as a lot as I can like I used to be doing earlier than shouldn’t be working usually with this bike,” he stated.

“However right here I’m [even] shedding the entrance whereas I’m straight so at present I had some lock – 30 metres of locking so it’s unbelievable. I have to do various things.”

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