Francesco Bagnaia will be furious when he hears what Marc Marquez told Alex Marquez before Italian Grand Prix

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Francesco Bagnaia is currently on his worst run of form since the start of the 2022 MotoGP season and cannot seem to string together a positive result.

Two races ago in Aragon, a brake change produced positive signs, but everything soon fell apart again at the high-speed Italian Grand Prix at Mugello.

The problem is that Bagnaia lacks feeling with the front of his GP25 bike, something which appears to have been missing since the end of last year.

And Ducati seem to have thrown everything at the issue. There isn’t much more they can do mechanically, without changing their bike altogether.

Bagnaia was ‘relieved’ to hear about one MotoGP regulation which could see him return to the GP24 that he won 11 races with last year.

It would be welcomed with open arms after Marc Marquez said Bagnaia ‘lacked’ speed at Mugello, before using all of his tyres far too quickly in the race. It cost him a podium.

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Francesco Bagnaia will be furious to hear about what Marc Marquez told Alex Marquez

Marquez and Bagnaia are fighting ‘an internal war’ and have an indifference over which parts they would prefer on their bikes.

However, they are teammates, and if anyone is expected to share parts of information with each other, it’s those two.

The Italian may be upset to hear that Marquez was giving his brother Alex, on the rival Gresini bike, some tyre information ahead of the previous race in Mugello.

“This morning, for example, before the warm-up, we spoke and we both wanted to ride with the medium on the rear,” he said, according to Mowmag.

“Then I saw that everyone was going out on the track with the soft and I said to José (Luis Martinez, Marc’s personal assistant) ‘Go tell Alex that I’m going out with the soft one.’ We both went out with the soft one and everything went well.”

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Are Francesco Bagnaia’s 2025 MotoGP title hopes over already?

After just nine MotoGP races, Bagnaia trails Marquez by 110 points, despite the Spaniard making some major mistakes.

In fact, crashes at COTA and Jerez have cost him nearly 40 points alone and would have seen him way further ahead in the championship by now.

The biggest deficit that Bagnaia has ever turned around came in 2022, when he pegged Fabio Quartararo from a 91-point lead to help him claim a first title.

But 110, on the same bike as his main competitor, while struggling to find a solution to his problems? That seems most improbable.