After a brilliant start from pole🧜 position, the current MotoGP champion lost the lead to Jor𒉰ge Martin which began a bizarre and unusual drop in pace from the factory Ducati rider.

Clearly lac꧃king confidence to push, Bagnaia instead lost out to Brad Binder, Marc Marquez and Luca Mari🌞ni before steadying the ship.

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After regrouping, Bagnaia wa🍌s once again one of the fastest riders on-track as he responded with moves on Marini and Marquez, despite the latter being stern in his defence for a few laps.

"I was struggling a bit ♛with the tyres," said Bagnaia post-race. "Maybe it was too cold or too hot for the warm-up I did with the tyres. 

"I needed two or three laps to get back the tyres to have the same feeling. I was struggling there and Jorge [Martin], when he overtook me, was so much faster at that moment.📖 I just had to remain a bit calm and it was easy to make mistakes today.  

"The front feeling was not as expected. Maybe for tomorrow we have t⛦o do something. I was struggling a bit so finishing iꦬn the top three is always really good. We had a great battle today."

Prior to Bagnaia coming back through on Marini and ဣMarquez for third, the world champion was pushed wide by Marquez, although it was a clean overtake from the Honda rider.

Still, Bagnaia was less than impressed initially, before saying to Marquez after the race that this is how they sh🍒ould battle. 

Bagnaia added: "When there is contact you can be upset beca🔴use of the adrenaline and the tension, but for me, a battle like this is normal. 

"We have to keep l๊ike this and not like two weeks ago when, for the same overtakes, I 🎀took a penalty. For me, this is normality. 

"I just said to him that it has to be like this always. Having aggressive fights and we have 😼to be allowed to 𝄹do that and not to be scared about penalties. 

"When I was behind him I was scared - I had two opportunities in corner seven and waওs there saying to myself ‘I go or not’."