Enea Bastianini concedes his hopes of winning the 2024 MotoGP title are stil⭕🦂l “distant” despite closing his points deficit in the Indonesian Grand Prix sprint.

The factory Ducati rider brushed off a “disaster” start, in which he dropped one place from fifth on the grid, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:in the sprint race at Mandalika on Saturday to miss the win to h🥂is team-🐻mate Francesco Bagnaia by just 0.107s.

With championship leader Jorge Martin scoring no points after a crash out of the lead on lap one, Ba꧃stianini’s second-place finish means he is now just 50 points behind the Pramac rider.

But a🍌sked, given the latest mistake for Martin, if his chances at fighting for the titl꧅e were now stronger, Bastianini said: “Now I am much closer, 50 points can be better compared to yesterday.

“Well, it’s a targ⛎et, can be my target. But to be realistic it’s a bit distant, this objective for me. But let’s see.”

Bastianini set the fastest lap of the sprint and was generally the quickest rider throughout the 1⛄3-lap contest.

With a bett💫er start, fighting for victory is something he feels would ♉have been possible.

“Probably wi﷽th a better start it was much easier to fight for the victory,” 🥂he added.

“After, you don’t know if you can win.

“But without any rider in front of me, I can be much fast♑er, I can brake how I want and can be a solution to win the race.”

During Friday’s practices, Bastianini had some of the🐷 best race pace and remains a favourite to battle for victory in Sunday’s grand prix.

“Will be difficult tomorrow because the medium tyre ꧒needs two, three ಞlaps to be ready,” he cautioned.

“And yesterday I made my best afte𒐪r 20 laps of tyre. Th🔯is is good, but also we need to check the start.

“Maybe, I don’t know if I can use the soft for tomorrow - I have 🌟to check now. With the medium, after these two, three laps I had a good pace.”

Bastianini made a late overtake on Marc Marquez to take second from at Turn𓆏 12 on the penultimate lap.

It didn’t 𓄧cause the controversy his last la🐼p move on Martin for the win at Misano last week did, and the Italian admits it wasn’t something that played on his mind when he passed Marquez.

“No, I didn’t think about this,” he said.

“It’s a bi﷽t easier to overtake in that corner compared to what happened in Misano.”