Jaime Alguersuari says winless MotoGP rider is now embarrassing Francesco Bagnaia, ‘something is not right’

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Francesco Bagnaia’s only victory of the 2025 MotoGP season to date came at the Americas GP six weeks ago. Bagnaia grabbed top spot after Ducati teammate Marc Marquez went down from the lead.

It seemed as if the victory could be the launchpad for the Italian’s title bid after an underwhelming start. Bagnaia closed to within 11 points of Marquez, who had to retire.

Unfortunately, Bagnaia has struggled in the three races since. He qualified a season-worst 11th at the Qatar GP, and while he recovered to P2 on Sunday, he was only eighth in the Sprint.

When Marquez fell again in Qatar, the 2022 and 2023 world champion wasn’t in a position to capitalise. Instead, he wound up third, unable to pass the Yamaha of Fabio Quartararo.

The 28-year-old was still bringing home reasonable points hauls, but he endured a horror weekend at Le Mans. Bagnaia had been cutting out mistakes in races, but he fell twice, once of his own accord and then after a first-corner tangle with Enea Bastianini.

He was the last classified rider in the wet race, missing out on a point. He’s now joint-fourth in the form table over the last three events, with Marquez Sr outscoring him by 40 points and shock France winner Johann Zarco ahead too.

Fermin Aldeguer is now showing up Francesco Bagnaia at Ducati

As the table above shows, Bagnaia is level on points with GP24 rider Fermin Aldeguer over the last three events. Aldeguer delivered three straight top-five finishes over the Qatar and Spain weekends.

He then followed up his first-ever Sprint podium last Saturday with his first official podium finish. The Moto2 graduate is starting to show why Ducati were so excited about him.

But his progress reflects poorly on Bagnaia. Speaking on the Bobb TV – Paddock TV YouTube channel, Jaime Alguersuari Sr predicted that Aldeguer could overtake the Ducati factory rider before long.

The gap is currently 72 points, but the duo are on different trajectories. Alguersuari, who competed in Grand Prix racing during the 1970s, says Aldeguer isn’t inclined to complain like Bagnaia.

“Fermin Aldeguer is 20 years old,” he remarked. “He was 19 four weeks ago. Aldeguer can even get behind Alex [currently second] at the halfway point of the championship, and that means in front of Pecco.

“Aldeguer has no complex. If the bike goes fast and there are no problems, it’s done. If he’s capable of going in front of Pecco, something is not right.”

Is Francesco Bagnaia making excuses after miserable Le Mans weekend?

There was a rumour before the French GP that Ducati had favoured Marquez with a new chassis. Bagnaia may have preferred to continue working with the original model.

Before the season started, this was Bagnaia’s team. But the Bologna outfit may now be gravitating towards their new superstar.

Bagnaia believes Ducati didn’t significantly improve the bike over the winter. That was always going to be difficult given the historic success they enjoyed last year.

The success of Alex Marquez, and now Aldeguer, on a GP24 would appear to support that theory. But it’s also true that the older Marquez brother has extracted much more from the up-to-date package as Bagnaia continually laments a lack of ‘feeling’.