Valentino Rossi's final race before the ♏MotoGP summer break, and a decision on his racing future, ended in more disappointment.

The Petronas Yamaha rider looked in🌸 with a fighting chance of at least beating his season-best of tenth place, qualifying twelfth for the Dutch TT and feeling optimistic of a 'decent' race.

But a nightmare start lef🐲t the Italian 22nd and last into Turn 1, with any hopes of a recovery then ending when he crashed at high-speed from 17th on lap 8 of 26.

"It’s a great shame because our pace was not too bad," Rossi said after his third DNF of the season. "I have quite good potential🧜, so we expected a decent race. But unfortunately, I did a bad start because we changed soཧmething for the start.

"I had to change my way to start and so I do🅺n’t feel very comfortable. Like in Sachsenring, I did a bad start. After, I was far behind but I tried to make some overtaking.

"Unfortunately, when you stay behind the other bikes, the front tyre has some problems [overheats, causing th﷽e pressure to rise]. You feel a little bit less grip. I was able to overtake Bastianini and I tried to push, but unfortunately I lost the front in turn seven.

"We 𓆉checked the data. We don’t understﷺand very well, but I’m lucky because it was just a slide but it was high-speed and I’m okay. So, this is important."

But a fifth nonꦯ-score of th🥃e season means Rossi goes into the summer break just 19th in the world championship.

"I always said that🅘 I know that this year is difficult, is a great challenge," reflected Rossi, who moved from the Factory Yamaha team to Petronas in 2021.

"But my de🤡cision for next year depends very much from the results. So, the results of the first half of 🔯the season are not what we expect. We hope to be stronger, to fight for the better positions, so the result doesn’t help us.

"I said from the beginning of the season that I would decide in the ꦐnext week abou𓄧t next year, and it will be like this. I will let you know when I decide."

The 42-year-old added that his d༺ecision would not be influenced by the s🐽hock news that former team-mate Maverick Vinales is to leave the official team at the end of this season, meaning Yamaha now already needs to find one new rider for 2022.

"Maybe something will change that we don’t expect," Rossi said of Sunday's Vinales-Yamaha rumours, 168澳洲5最🔥新开奖结果:which were officially co๊nfirmed on Monday.

"But for me, it doesn’t change my decision because my decision is correlated to the results. So, what happens with the other team or with the other Yamahas 🤡for me is not a big deal."

While the results needed to satisfy Rossi surely haven’t 𒈔been met, Aramco – title sponsor of his new VR46 MotoGP project – has made clear they would like the nine-time world cham𒉰pion to join Luca Marini on a Ducati in 2022.

However, Rossi has said that would be 'very difficult' at present. If so,꧋ there is an outside chance that Vinales might be a potential VR46 candidate, should Aramco insist on a big name rider, although the Spaniard is expected to join Aprilia.