While the top four riders in the Aragon MotoGP finished in the same order as the opening lap🍸, a fierce fight for fifth raged between Franco Morbidelli and rookie Fermin Aldeguer.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Aldeguer had got the better of the Italian for third in the Saturday Sprint, but the🧔 VR46 rider prevailed after some fairing banging during the grand prix.

The GP24 riders initially fought over sixth place, before being promoted one place 🍸when Brad Binder crashed.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Morbidelli led Aldeguer over the line from lap 2 onwards but was forced to launch numerous counterattacks to stay ahead of t💃he blue machine.

The pair♏ twice💃 made contact at high speed along the back straight.

“🧸It was a sketchy ൲race,” said Morbidelli. “I was struggling big time, especially in the first half.

“I wasn't having the feeling I was expecting and I almost c🦄rashed three times, two of♔ them big ones, in turn 9 and turn 10.

“So I'm really happy that I was able 𝓰to bring the bike home, even more in P5 because at the end I found myself fighting with Fermin.

“It was a really nice battle. ♕I'm pleased that I could get the better of him.

“It felt similar to the battle 𝕴with Marc in Silverstone, the difference was the💝 ending. 

"With Marc, I couldn't beat him. With Fermin🐻, I could, but he was really strong.”

Morbidelli denied that some of the passes between them were overly aggressive - “it was just a nice battle” - but did admit contact on the straig🌊ht caused a sꩵpike of adrenaline.

“Pure adrenaline was going through my head in that moment of the race, if you could spill it in a shot [glass], I could make you an ad♎renalin꧑e drink!” he smiled.

Had the cut-throat dirt traꦅck b✨attles with VR46 Academy riders at Valentino Rossi’s ranch helped?

“There is nothing really that can train you for a battle ✃at 360km/h, with bikes with 250 horsepower and that weight, until the last 🔯lap of the race, with finished tyres.

“The✤re are few things that can help you to tr𒉰ain for that.

“For sure, the ranch has its benefits in training, but I think in those moments you really go by instinct. And i𒅌t depends on human being to human being.”

While the duel thril♈led the watching fans, Morbidelli admitted it probably cost them the chance to challenge Pedro Acosta for fourth.

“For sure, I lost a lot of time with the battle and the three big 🏅moments I had. We could have got closer to Pedro. But that's the way it is🦂.”

Fermin Aldeguer: “Heavy” fight with Morbidelli

Aldeguer also had nꦐo complaints over the intensity of the battle.

“Yeah, a funny fight. It was a good race. If I’d won the battle, I’d be even happier, but we didn’t do the best start. I had some s🤪pin.

“Then in the first fight with Morbidelli, on the second lap, he touched me and I went straight, so I lost 💟a lot of tim🎉e.

“When I caught Morbidelli again, my front tyre was a little bit destroyed by the g🌺raining, and the temperature went up a lot.

“I tried by best𒅌 to fight, but Morbidelli is ‘heavy’ in a battle, he has a lot more experience and he won. But we are a rookie, so it’s okay.

“We took a lot of experience in this battle, and I would have signed for a sixth 🌜position just eight races ago [at the start of the seas♏on].”

Both will be back on track for Monday’s official MotoGP test, alt🌠hough their satellite status means neither rider expects to try new parts.