Pecco Bagnaia has the dedication ready for Sic

Pecco was 14 years old. He can’t help but remember also why he was a chick already hatched from the egg. He ran to Spain to chase the same dream that Marco Simoncelli she wore around on the tips of her curls. Sunday 23 October 2011. Exactly 11 years ago. Same date, same track. Destiny never plays hole cards. He knows how to throw emotion in your face like a whipped cream cake. Pecco Bagnaia can become MotoGP world champion on the same track and on the same day that the bikes have taken away Marco’s always cheerful face, the boy who should have become Vale’s heir, the first Italian champion after Rossi. Life has decided otherwise. The role of Rossi’s heir has remained vacant since 2009 when, in Malaysia, Vale won his ninth and last title. Then the tenth would also have come without Marquez’s dirty games, but that’s another problem. The fact is that for twelve twelve years no Italian, neither Dovi nor others managed to become champion in the premier class, those of Agostini and Valentino, but also of Uncini, Lucchinelli, Liberali and Masetti. Yes, there are only six Italians who are 500 or MotoGP world champions. Francesco Bagnaia, known as Pecco by his little sister and Pecco who was also grown up, can become the seventh. The first Italian champion with a Ducati, the fourth after Masetti, Liberali and Agostini with an Italian bike.

Pecco has 14 points of advantage with two races to go, in Australia he has already started to run as an accountant, his zero in the standings had already distributed them before with unusual abundance (5 races without a point) for a world champion. The Ducati is the best bike in the realm and it would be a waste to leave the riders title that so far only Casey Stoner has brought to Borgo Panigali. That Luciferian genius of Gigi Dall’Igna has built a perfect bike so much so that the second constructors’ title in a row has already been at home for some time. Often this year he missed men. The owners fell and the bad boys of the satellite team won. And the Ducati undaunted ahead without team orders as if it wanted to imitate the harakiri of the other Red, the four-wheeled one. In the end, Pecco succeeded in the feat never seen in the top class: he had 91 points behind Quartararo after the German GP at Sachsenring and now, after eight races, he is leading the World Championship with an advantage of 14 points. The flight of two races ago in Japan seemed to have derailed the train, throwing the last big chance. On the other hand, although he has not won any more since 4 September in Misano, Bagnaia has accumulated points by sucking a Quartararo in a crisis of motion, but perhaps also with a head. “The Frenchman is good, but today Ducati is Ducati. With Pecco the bike forms an exceptional combination, a beautiful thing that blossomed in an overwhelming way. And after 50 years, they are close to experiencing the same sensations as mine: the pride of being an Italian excellence in the eyes of the whole world “, said His Majesty Giacomo Agostini who this week spoke almost to unified networks to prepare for the great Italian holiday. If it is not in Malaysia, it will then be in Valencia. If the title were to escape there would be really bad thinking.

This year’s Ducati, but also last year’s, is a bit like the Red Bull of MotoGP without having to break the rules though. It is an unbeatable bike that wins with Pecco, but also with Miller or Bastianini. Bagnaia, however, is not Verstappen and neither is Leclerc, even if at the age of 25 in January, he has the makings of a great champion. He is someone who knows how to cook, who loves the same girl, Domitia, since she was 15, who, before getting on her saddle, caresses her motorbike and kisses her girlfriend. A normal-one that knows how to turn into a special-one to put it in Mourinho style even if he prefers Juve. He was born at the Vale school and to attend it without distractions he left Turin for Pesaro, the city where he was born for the one with a view of the sea and above all of Tavullia and the kindergarten of the champions of the future. Pecco knows how to cry if he wins, the first rider in history, to win four races in a row with Ducati. Pecco knows how to laugh if Cattelan calls him to play the joker on TV. Just don’t compare him to Valentino because they won’t be born from Vale for a while. Meanwhile, he was able to fill the void left by Vale’s retirement, but also by Marquez’s injury. He gave lessons because the professors weren’t in the professorship. But he has everything not to become a meteor. He especially he has the right bike.