MotoGP world champion Francesco Bagnaia was baffled and angry after throwing away 25 points by crashing out of Sunday's Grand Prix of the Americas while leading from pole position.
The Ducati rider, who took a Saturday sprint/Sunday double in last month's Portuguese opener, has now crashed out of his last two full distance races when he might have banked 45 points.
"For the second weekend in a row I don't know ," Bagnaia, who won the Saturday sprint but is now 11 points behind Bezzecchi after three rounds, told BT Sport. "So we need to understand it, we have to know why it is happening. I did many, many laps this weekend without having any issues, and then in the race just controlling, I crashed."
"It's true that our bike is so fast, so competitive, but then if you crash and you don't know why it doesn't help anything," he added.
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