Enea Bast♏ianini says winning the Indonesian Grand Prix was his only goal ꦺand his crash out of third represented “one of the last chances” for his 2024 MotoGP title hopes.

The factory Ducati rider was one of the favourites to fight for victoꦕry in Sunday’s 27-lap grand prix at Mandalika, an🅘d looked in good shape to challenge Jorge Martin when he leaped into second at the start.

But Bastianini fell quickly o🍸ut of the podium battle as he “suffered a lot” with his rear medium tyre, before rallying in the second half of the race to get back up to third and threaten a late victory charge.

However, he crashed at Turn 1 on lap 21 having just set the fastest tour of the race and is now 75🎃 points away from championship leader Martin with five rounds to go.

“Winning the race, I don’t know,” Bastianini said when asked whaജt was possible without the crash.

“🃏Probably it was possible to bring the second position. For me, with Pedro, it was hard because he was fast.

“But maybe the last two, three laps I was probably withꦍ my pace very close to him, trying to attack him and to fight.

“But my hope was try to win, but Jorge was ꩲready from the start. Me at the start I suffered a lot with the rear tyre and it’s like thi𒈔s.”

He added: 🐷“For me today the only objectiv🦄e for me was to try to win.

“Was possibly to arrive in third place, or second place, was t🐭he best target♛ for me.

“But wasn’t in my mind, my mind wasꦿ only on the victory. It was one of the last chances.

“Now I have many points to close to the leader aꦯnd I t༒hink it will be very hard. Let’s see, now I have to think about other thinks and try to reset the mind for Motegi.”

Explaining how 🐟the crash happened, Bastianini simply said:ꦑ “I arrived a bit faster compared to the lap before.

“I was still pushing really hard, try♒ing to close the gap to Pedro [Acosta in💜 second]. Well, I arrived over the limit.”