Not to be confused with Italian scenographer Francesco Bagnara.

Francesco Bagnaia
Francesco 'Pecco' Bagnaia at the 2022 San Marino Grand Prix at Misano.jpg
Bagnaia at the 2022 San Marino Grand Prix
Born 14 January 1997 (age 25)
Turin, Italy
Current team Ducati Lenovo Team
Bike number 63
Motorcycle racing career statistics
MotoGP World Championship
Active years 2019–
Manufacturers Ducati
Championships 1 (2022)
2022 championship position 1st (265 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
67 11 20 11 9 618
Moto2 World Championship
Active years 2017–2018
Manufacturers Kalex
Championships 1 (2018)
2018 championship position 1st (306 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
36 8 16 6 3 480
Moto3 World Championship
Active years 2013–2016
Manufacturers FTR Honda (2013)
KTM (2014)
Mahindra (2015–2016)
Championships 0
2016 championship position 4th (145 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
69 2 7 1 2 271
Francesco "Pecco" Bagnaia (born 14 January 1997) is an Italian Grand Prix
motorcycle racer competing in MotoGP for the Ducati Lenovo Team.[1] He is the 2022
MotoGP World Champion and previously won the 2018 Moto2 World Championship, after
winning eight races during that season.[2] He became just the second rider from the
VR46 academy to win a world title after Franco Morbidelli in 2017.[3]

Contents
1 Career
1.1 Early career
1.2 Moto3 World Championship
1.3 Moto2 World Championship
1.4 MotoGP World Championship
1.4.1 Pramac Racing (2019–2020)
1.4.1.1 2019
1.4.1.2 2020
1.4.2 Ducati Lenovo Team (2021–present)
1.4.2.1 2021
1.4.2.2 2022
1.4.2.3 2023
2 Career statistics
2.1 CEV Buckler Moto3 Championship
2.1.1 Races by year
2.2 Grand Prix motorcycle racing
2.2.1 By season
2.2.2 By class
2.2.3 Races by year
3 Personal life
4 References
5 External links
Career
Early career
Born in Turin, Bagnaia was already successful early on in Minimoto, as he won the
European MiniGP championship in 2009. Bagnaia made his pre-GP 125 Mediterranean
championship debut with Monlau Competición team in 2010 and finished 2nd in the
championship. In 2011 he took part in the Spanish Championships in the 125cc
category, winning a race, and finishing third in the final standings.[4] In the
2012 CEV Moto3 season he rode a Honda NSF250R and once again finished 3rd in the
championship behind Álex Márquez and Luca Amato, with a race win and two 2nd places
in seven races.[5] Bagnaia was recruited to be a member of the VR46 riders academy,
and is still part of the academy to this day.[6]

Moto3 World Championship

Bagnaia made his Grand prix debut in the 2013 Moto3 World Championship, with Team
Italia FMI riding a Honda alongside his teammate Romano Fenati. The season was a
disappointing year for Bagnaia as he did not manage to get a single point in the 17
races he participated in. His best race was a 16th-place finish at Sepang.

Bagnaia at the 2013 British Grand Prix

In 2014, Bagnaia switched teams to join the newly formed Sky Racing Team by VR46,
riding a KTM with Romano Fenati again. After failing to score points in his rookie
season, Bagnaia made clear improvements, finishing in the top 10 five times during
the first 7 races, with a 4th-place finish at Le Mans as his best result, where he
also set the fastest lap of the race. Bagnaia missed the races at Assen and
Sachsenring due to injury. After scoring 42 points in the first 7 races of the
campaign Bagnaia slumped badly during the second part of the season, only finishing
in the points twice of the last 9 races, clearly affected by his injury. He
finished the season in 16th position with 50 points.

In 2015, Bagnaia made another team and bike change, this time joining Aspar Team on
a Mahindra, with new teammates being Juanfran Guevara and Jorge Martín. In the
fifth race of the season in France, Bagnaia got his first podium at Le Mans,
finishing the race in 3rd place behind Romano Fenati and Enea Bastianini.[7] In the
next race at Mugello Bagnaia finished 4th, missing the podium by 0.003 seconds. He
was on his way to another podium finish at Silverstone but crashed with 2 laps
remaining, fighting with Niccolò Antonelli for the 3rd place. Despite improving his
championship position by two places, and gaining 26 more points than the previous
year on a new bike for the third straight season, this time a Mahindra, it was
still an up and down year for him. Bagnaia only finished in the top 10 during five
races. He also missed points in seven races, unclassified in five of those. He
finished the year 14th place in the championship standings, with 76 points.

In 2016, Bagnaia started the season with a podium finish at Losail and another
podium finish at Jerez, finishing 3rd on both occasions. At his home race in Italy
Bagnaia secured another 3rd position, beating Niccolò Antonelli by 0.006 seconds.
Followed by a crash at Barcelona, Bagnaia secured his first Grand Prix win at the
historic Assen circuit, in what his 59th Moto3 race, and the first win for Mahindra
history too.[7] He had four podiums in the first eight races of the season, and
found himself fighting for the title. After two average races and a crash at Brno,
Bagnaia got his first pole position in the rain-affected Silverstone and finished
second behind Brad Binder in a thrilling race. Bagnaia won his second race of the
season at Sepang, winning the race comfortably with a big gap after Brad Binder,
Joan Mir and Lorenzo Dalla Porta all crashed out in the same corner during the
beginning of the race, which was filled with multiple crashes.[8] He finished the
season with 145 points to place 4th in the Moto3 Championship with a total of 2
wins and 6 podiums. Bagnaia would have had an opportunity to finish 2nd in the
World Championship behind Brad Binder, but was taken out in both Phillip Island and
Valencia by Gabriel Rodrigo. Rodrigo pushed out Fabio Di Giannantonio in Australia
who went down and collected Bagnaia with him. In Valencia Rodrigo made a highside
crash on the first lap approaching the last corner, Bagnaia was unable to avoid.

Moto2 World Championship

Bagnaia leading the race at the 2018 Japanese Grand Prix

After 4 seasons in the Moto3 category, Bagnaia moved up to Moto2 racing for Sky
Racing Team VR46, where he last rode in 2014. For the 2017 Moto2 World
Championship, he would have Stefano Manzi as his teammate. In just his fourth ever
Moto2 race at Jerez Bagnaia finished 2nd. He finished 2nd in the next race as well
at Le Mans after having qualified in 2nd place, missing pole position to Thomas
Lüthi by just 0.026 seconds. Bagnaia took a third podium at Sachsenring, finishing
3rd behind Franco Morbidelli and Miguel Oliveira. At Misano Bagnaia originally
finished the race 4th behind Dominique Aegerter, Thomas Lüthi and Hafizh Syahrin;
however, Aegerter was later disqualified, promoting him to 3rd of his fourth podium
of the season. He was crowned Moto2 Rookie of the year after the Japanese Grand
Prix at Motegi, and finished his rookie season with 174 points to place 5th in the
championship standings, scoring points in 16 of the 18 races.

Bagnaia opened the season with a win in Qatar, having led the race from start to
finish. Bagnaia took a second win in Austin after a hard fight with Álex Márquez
winning the race with a gap of 2.4 seconds and also setting the fastest lap of the
race. At Jerez Bagnaia finished 3rd behind Lorenzo Baldassarri and Miguel Oliveira
holding his starting grid position. Bagnaia took his first pole position in Moto2
at Le Mans, and like the race in Qatar he led from start to finish. The win was
also his 3rd podium at Le Mans since 2015. Bagnaia took a 4th win at Assen,
starting the race from Pole Position and leading the entire race. After qualifying
3rd on the grid in Sachsenring, Bagnaia finished the race down in 12th place,
having been forced outside of the track after Mattia Pasini, who fell down in front
of him in the last corner on the second lap, and despite being down in 26th, he
made up fourteen places in two laps, including overtaking Álex Márquez the final
corner of the last lap. At Brno Bagnaia finished third and lost the championship
lead to Oliveira, but quickly retook the championship lead at Austria, winning his
5th race of the season. Bagnaia won his sixth race of the season at Misano from
pole position. He took a 5th straight podium at Buriram, winning the race with his
teammate Luca Marini in second place. He took his 8th win of the season at Motegi
after Fabio Quartararo, who initially won the race, was disqualified due to low
tyre pressure. After finishing 3rd at Sepang he was crowned Moto2 World Champion
with his 12th podium of the season, his teammate Luca Marini taking his first ever
Moto2 win as well, his 5th podium of the campaign.[9]

Bagnaia finished every single Moto2 race he participated in, 36 in total. He scored
points in 34 of them and was on a 30-race point scoring streak, starting from
Barcelona in 2017. The streak ended when he retired from his first MotoGP race at
Losail.

MotoGP World Championship

Pramac Racing (2019–2020)
2019
After two seasons in the Moto2 category championship, Bagnaia was promoted up to
take part in the 2019 MotoGP World Championship with Pramac Ducati.[10] He was
previously offered a ride in MotoGP in 2018 by Pramac after his stellar rookie
season in 2017, where he took four podiums and finished 5th in the championship
behind Franco Morbidelli, Thomas Luthi, Miguel Oliveira and Álex Márquez, but
Bagnaia decided to stay, with an opportunity to take the championship title. He
replaced fellow Italian rider Danilo Petrucci, who went to the Factory Ducati Team,
replacing three-time MotoGP World Champion Jorge Lorenzo, who took the seat vacated
at Repsol Honda Team by Dani Pedrosa after he decided to retire after 13 seasons in
MotoGP, becoming an official test rider for KTM.

After failing to score points in Qatar, where he retired from the race due to a
damaged front wing, Bagnaia took his first two points in the MotoGP World
Championship with a 14th place in Argentina, having started the race from 17th on
the grid. Bagnaia finished 9th in Austin getting positions after Marc Márquez and
Cal Crutchlow crashed out from the race in separate accidents, and both Maverick
Vinales and Joan Mir were penalised with ride through penalties for jumping the
start. Prior to the fourth race at Jerez Bagnaia had three straight podium
finishes, starting from the 2016 Moto3 season. He qualified 10th on the grid but
crashed out on the sixth lap, fighting with Pol Espargaro. At Le Mans where Bagnaia
won the Moto2 race in 2018, he crashed out on the sixth lap after an incident with
Maverick Vinales. In the next race at Mugello, his home Grand Prix, Bagnaia had a
solid start to the weekend. He topped the second Free Practice time sheets on his
way to qualify 8th on the grid. However, he crashed in the last corner on the 11th
lap while in 7th place. It was the first time in Bagnaia's career that he had
failed to finish three races in a row, all of them with crashes. In Austria,
Bagnaia had his best race weekend since his time in Moto2, both in terms of his
qualifying, advancing to Q2 and starting from 5th on the grid, and race pace,
managing to cross the line in 7th place. At Phillip Island Bagnaia finished the
race in 4th place, his best result of the season, missing the podium by just 0.055
seconds to his Ducati teammate Jack Miller. Bagnaia finished his rookie season in
the premier class with 54 points, placing him 15th in the championship standings.
He missed the final race at Valencia due to injury.

2020
For the 2020, Bagnaia received a GP20 bike, the same as his teammate, Jack Miller.
However, in a season that was majorly affected with races constantly being
postponed or cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the first race in
MotoGP wasn't held until 19 July at Jerez, with the first scheduled race at Losail
being cancelled for the premier class. Despite this, Bagnaia had a strong first
weekend, qualifying 4th on the grid and ultimately finishing the race in 7th
position. In the next race, held at Jerez, Bagnaia was even stronger than the
previous race, qualifying on the front row of the grid in 3rd place. Unfortunately
on lap 19, with 6 laps remaining, him well settled in to his 2nd place and on his
way to a maiden podium, he had to retire with engine failure. Next race weekend at
Brno Bagnaia crashed during FP1, breaking his leg, and he therefore missed the
remainder of the weekend, and the two next races, being replaced by replaced by
Michele Pirro. He returned for his home race at Misano, where he took his first
podium of his MotoGP career, with a second-place finish behind Franco Morbidelli,
fellow VR46 Academy member.[11] He fell into a bit of a slump after his first
podium however, only scoring 8 points in the last six races, eventually finishing
the season down in 16th place, with 47 points to his name.

Ducati Lenovo Team (2021–present)

2021

Bagnaia at the 2021 Algarve Grand Prix

For 2021, Bagnaia moved up to the factory Ducati team, along with former teammate
Jack Miller. He started the season well, qualifying for pole position ahead of
teammate Miller and the factory Yamaha riders Fabio Quartararo and Maverick
Vinales, at the season opener in Losail. This marked his first career MotoGP pole
position, and he would later finish the race in 3rd. In the second race in Qatar,
Bagnaia finished in 6th place. At Portimao Bagnaia initially took Pole position
during Qualifying; however, his lap time was disallowed due to Miguel Oliveira's
crash and yellow flag, which meant Bagnaia started the race from 11th. During the
race Bagnaia worked his way up to finish in 2nd place behind Fabio Quartararo after
Jack Miller, Alex Rins and Johann Zarco all crashed out. He finished 2nd the
following race weekend in Jerez too, making it three podiums from four races. The
middle of the season saw him score regular points, before he had another 2nd place
in Austria. Bagnaia took his maiden premier class win at Aragon, where he set the
all time track record in qualifying,[12] and led the entire race starting from
pole, successfully defending seven overtakes by Marc Márquez during the final
stages of the race.[13] Bagnaia managed to repeat this achievement the following
weekend in Rimini; he broke the lap record to take pole and led the entire race to
take his second career victory in MotoGP.[14] Bagnaia secured his third consecutive
pole position in Austin, and finished the race in third, cutting the championship
lead of Fabio Quartararo to 52 points, with three races remaining. In Misano,
Bagnaia would continue his incredible hot streak, getting pole position, setting
the fastest lap of the race, before he crashed out of the lead with 5 laps to go,
securing the title for Fabio Quartararo. This would not deter Bagnaia however,
securing a fifth consecutive pole position in Portimao, something which has only
been done in the premier class after the 1000cc rule change by Marc Márquez in 2014
and Fabio Quartararo earlier this season.[15] He won the race in Portimao, as well
as the season closer in Valencia, finishing second in the championship, with 252
points, 26 points behind World Champion Fabio Quartararo.

Bagnaia (#63) at the 2022 Indonesian Grand Prix

2022
Going into the 2022 season, Bagnaia with a strong finish from the previous year,
was picked as a Championship favourite for his second year with Ducati.

He crashed out of 8th place taking the polesitter and fellow Ducati rider, Jorge
Martin out at the opening race at Losail in Qatar. At the second round of the
season, at a wet Mandalika circuit, Bagnaia took home a disappointing 15th place,
collecting only one point in the opening two races of the season.

Two fifth places at COTA and the Argentinia