An “angry” Francesco Bagnaia says a poor start with his Ducati’s clutch and an overheating front tyre in the MotoGP San Marino G😼rand Prix🔜 sprint allowed Jorge Martin to beat him.

Bagnaia topped Friday practice at Misano and then qualified on pole with a new lap record on Saturday morning, while championship leader Martin struggled 🔴to 🎃fourth.

But at the start of the 13-lap sprint, Martin launched himself into the lead ahead of Bagnaia and headed him to ꦅthe chequered flag to extend his championshiꩵp advantage to 26 points.

Bagnaia ran close with Martin in the first half of the spr༒int, but by the chequered flag the gap between the pair was 1.495s.

The Italian says he is frustrated with himself because he fluffed his start. And because his pace was ꧙so similar to Martin’s, he couldn’t find anywhere to overtake him and subsequently overheated✱ his front tyre.

“I’m angry with my performance, because I did a bad start, I didn’t find a good start with the clutch and I lost the first place,” B𒅌agnaia told TNT Sport.

“And we know perfectly how difficu🦄lt it is i꧒n this track to overtake when you have the same pace as the guys in front of you.

“I was trying the first laps but then the fr꧒ont tyre🌜 became too hot and I started losing it.

“So, I didn’t have any chance of overtaking Jorge. This afternoon he was just faste🎶r… not faster, but he did a better job for sure.

“We have to improve for tomorrow because we canꦆ’t do another start like this.”

Bagnaia also noted after jumping off his Ducati: “I was losing a bit on the exitꦺs of Turns 6, 8 anꦉd 10, I was sliding quite a bit on the bike, I was behind and everything changed.

“When you're riding alone everything is perfect, but ൩whenﷺ you have dirty air the bike behaves differently.”

After his difficult Aragon weekend, Bagꦛnaia says it was “important” he still managed to finish second - even if he has ceded more ground to Martin in the standings.

Looking ahead t🀅o the grand prix, Bagnaia believes it will be a different race to the sprint on thꦫe medium rear.

Thiꦫs was the tyre Bagnaia put some impressive race pace on in Friday practice, though he thinks some will try and use the soft.

“For sure, after what happened in Aragon, it was important to🦹 finish the race - doing the ♕maximum, but finishing the race,” he added.

𝕴“And we did it. But for tomorrow it will be a different race with the medium.

“You can’﷽t push like you want with tဣhe medium and you have to be more careful in the first laps.

“I think that some riders will try to go with the soft because today it was quite good apart from in the last two, three laps. But I think it will also be a good choice for t♏omorrow.”