The Ducati rider arrived at Motegi 10 points behind leader and reigning champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Quartararo in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2022 MotoGP standings, but he departed with an 18-point deficit.

Bagnaia dramatically crashed out and narrowly avoided contact with Quartararo - it i⛦s the fifth time he has retired early from a race (Qatar, France, Catalonia, Germany, Japan).

“The mistake, in this moment ༒I can’t do it. I have already crashed five times this year,” he reflected to BT Sport. “So, I have t𒈔o think about it…”

Bagnaia knows the door is closin𒁏g on a potential first MotoGP championship with only four races remaining, beginning in Thailand this weekend.

But he also knows that last week’s performance can’t be repeated if he has ☂any hope of 𒊎usurping Quartararo: “We have to understand why I was so slow in the wet, because in the next race the possibility of [wet conditions] is high.

“It will be vꦍery important to under🔜stand why I was struggling, why I didn’t have the pace.

“It is strange♛ because normally I am competitive.”

He said about the♛ moment his race ended in Japan: “I did a mistake, a huge mistake.

“I did💮n’t breathe in this moment. I tried to꧃ overtake Fabio, to have more possibility to also overtake Vinales, but it was too soon. I was too far behind with a big gap.

“I am happy tha👍t I didn’t touch Fabio during the crasꦡh. It would have been a disaster, in that case.

“The only good thing was that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Aleix Espargaro had a problem a💟nd Fabio wasn’t so competitive so I didn’t lose too many points.”

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