MotoGP interview: BT Sport team discuss Pecco Bagnaia's difficult campaign so far

The MotoGP summer break is coming to an end, and we’ll soon be back racing with the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on August 7th.

It’s been a top campaign so far with plenty of surprises and twists, but it’s Fabio Quartararo who has stayed true to form to lead the standings at this stage.

Behind him is Aleix Espargaro, the man who has shocked so many with his performances so far this year, and the man who seems quite possibly the only rider who could stop Quartararo winning a second premier class title.

Ahead of Silverstone, then, Give Me Sport caught up with the team at BT Sport to get their thoughts on some of the talking points of the campaign so far and, here, we’re taking a look at Pecco Bagnaia and where it appears to have gone wrong so far this year:

Neil Hodgson:

“Do you know what, it’s a question that he’ll be asking right now.

“I’m sure Ducati are asking that question right now. You look at the season going into the second half and unless Fabio has a meltdown, which I can’t see him doing, it’s done.

“All I can say is looking back at how the season started it just seemed like they focused too much in the limited pre-season on bike development as opposed to getting a baseline on the bike, so every time they went testing they were like ‘try this, try that’ as opposed to saying ‘this is the bike, let’s perfect it,’ but there’s not a lot of pre-season testing so I think that was their mistake.

“[It looks like panic mode set in after Qatar,] because they were struggling all that weekend, then he crashes in the race and then it’s like panic mode, you could see it couldn’t you and it took like until his first win for them to go ‘no if we can become consistent and win some races we’ll be alright.’

“He needs to