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Pecco Bagnaia: xxxxxxxx: World xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br />
Champ<br />
Photo by Milagro/Monster Energy<br />
Last year the guys were telling you to<br />
calm down and don’t worry about a bad<br />
result-<br />
[smiles] it was my first year…<br />
How was that advice and the way the<br />
group treated you different in 2018?<br />
Your first race of the year was a victory<br />
and it set the tone…<br />
I think that advice to keep calm was the<br />
best I have received in the last few years.<br />
It is so true. If you can keep calm then it<br />
means things are better for you and your<br />
team. But…if I see something I don’t like<br />
then I do get a bit stressed! I’m working<br />
on that…but I need a bit more time.<br />
It has been going quite well this season<br />
even if the pressure has been higher. I<br />
feel I can cope well with pressure. I know<br />
this is one of my strong points and the<br />
team have been very cool with me, they<br />
knew what was possible and played it<br />
well. Fighting and winning a championship<br />
is something very new to me and<br />
the team have dealt with that in a great<br />
way.<br />
What’s it like to have a stellar season?<br />
You might win the first couple<br />
of rounds and have that euphoria but<br />
what about when you get to rounds<br />
ten, eleven, twelve and so on? Does<br />
the excitement dip and is replaced by<br />
another type of emotion?<br />
Ha! For me it doesn’t dip. I finished<br />
second in Japan [he was later awarded<br />
the win after Fabio Quatararo’s disqualification]<br />
and wasn’t very happy. <strong>On</strong><br />
one side it was good for the championship<br />
because Oliveira was behind and<br />
it meant more points. It was the same<br />
in Aragon. When IRTA came to us in<br />
Japan and said I had the victory then I<br />
was really satisfied.
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