The reigning world champion, sixth in the dry Saturday Spri🎶nt, spent the opening half of the wet grand prix sandwiched between Alex Marquez and Franco Morbidelli for third.

The💟 Italian then wrestled second from the Gresini machine o🅰f Marquez, where he looked set to finish, with VR46’s Marco Bezzecchi having already escaped into the distance.

But it all came undone j༒ust a few laps later when Bagnaia lost the front o🌳f his Desmosedici through the final sequence of right-handers.

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“I crashed. I'm very upset, sincerely. I had this kind of crash that you don't understand,” he said. “Sometimes you crash and you don't know why, and these are the most difficult to understand, the most difficu⛦lt to learn from.

“In those 16 laps I did the same manoeuvre but in this lap I crashed. It's also not a normal crash, becau🐼se normally when you lo📖se the front, it's because you braked too much or you released the brakes too early.

“Today I lost the front touching the gas. So it's something that is more d๊ifficult to understand. But that's it. I did a mistake.

“I was wondering that this year I was a better rider, more precise, without mistakes, doing b🐓etter things, but the second race of the year and I already crashed.

"So it's something that makes me very angry.”

The incident sounded similar to some of the ‘pressure off’ accidents that Bagnaia&ౠnbsp;suffered in the opening half of l💮ast s🐼eason, after which he fought back from 91 points down to win the world title.

“I was feeling really great. Without ꦍforcing, without doing crazy things, I was second. I was already sure that Marco in front was too fast for me, I was already with 5 seconds of gap,” he꧋ said.

“I was just controlling the [gap] with Alex. And that's it. But it's for that reason that I'm more upset. Because normꦉally when you control, you don't have to crash like this, and this is something that I have to understand.”

The double Portimao winner re-joined the race but finished 16th and last, costing him the title lead to VR46 Academy colleague Bezzecchi by 💦9 points.

“I'm happy for Marco, I think he really deserved 𒁃the victory. He was﷽ unbeatable this weekend,” Bagnaia said. “He was very competitive yesterday, very competitive today in the wet.

“So his first win in Moto3 was here, his firs𓃲t win in MotoGP is here, so he can be very proud of himself, and I'm confident that he will be very competitive all of the season.”

Ba꧋gnaia's factory Ducati team-mate Enea Bastianini ඣmissed the event due to his fractured shoulder in the Portimao Sprint.