After seeing Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia crash out ahead of him, Quartararo was gifted the ♑chance to stand on the po🍨dium for the first time since COTA.

Quartararo looked poised to claim third before Martin ran into issues with his leather, which 💎saw a 1.4 second margin drop to sixth tenths.

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Marti🐻n then recovered the time lost but made a mistake at turn three on the♑ final, this time allowing Quartararo to not only catch him but overtake him.

Martin then produced a very aggressive move around turn six, as he🐎 swiped across the front of Quartararo’s Yamaha. 

"Was really difficult to be honest," said Quartararo after the race. "Especially th🔯e last lap. I was always one-and-a-half/two seconds away from the top guys that were Pecco and Jorge. 

"Marco [Bezzecchi] was really far away. But on the lasꦚt lap I could really see our weak point more and more.&꧃nbsp;

"We have to work on that part and hop𝓰efully we can make a step next year. We can’t really fight with them. We can hold the pace but we cannot really fight."

Quartararo also spoke about the near-m♐iss with Martin, however the 2021 world champion avoided criticising the Spaniard. 

The Frenchman added: "I saw that he was doing something strange with the leathers and thought it was maybe arm pump🌠 or something. 

"But I could see w🐬hat happene൩d to him. The drive I had out of turn five was super bad. I was spinning like hell. 

"I was trying to control 🅠it with the gas but unfortunately I had nothing more on the tyre. With the grip issues we are having I could not give more of a fight. 

"Also going into turn ten I didn’t have the confi🌳dence. But I can be happy. Marco was on another level and yesterday Jorge won the sprint race; we weren’t able to really fight but we are getting closer."