Bagnaia led nearly the entire race before Fabio Di Giannantonio overtook h💙im with four laps remaining.

Bagnai🧸a, who still took huge points out of title rival Jorge Martin despite losing the victory, was not fully happy although he did admit the championship position was a♛ big bonus.

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“Happy but not happy at♛ 100%,” said the world champion. “I did what I was expecting from myself. Yesterday I was expecting this pace but I wasn’t able to do it. 💯;

“Today, every🌄thing♔ went perfect and from the start I tried to push. I did my ideal race and it was nice to be back leading and pushing. 

“It was a long time since I did my pace so I was very happy. Happy for the pace we showed but I’m not happy f🎃or the mistake that 🃏I already did in the past. 

“In 2021 I did the same with Johann Zarco. I’m not ♕happy about that because usually you learn from🌄 your mistakes. 

“I was not expecting this type of sucking from the slipstream. Di 🏅Gia was fantastic all weekend and his pace was faster than mine.”

With Jorge Martin unable to achieve anything more than a P10 result, Bagnaia leads the championship by over 20 ꦿpoints w𓃲ith one round to go. 

Speaking about his 🍌rival’s tough day, Bagnaia said: “Jorge had a very bad start and it put him in the back. But then I saw that he was struggling with his pace. 

“I don’t know what happened but maybe the same thing happened𓃲 as it did with me yesterday. 

I didn’t hear [what happe🍸ned to him]. “I was expecting him to be f🌺ourth but I didn’t know that he was tenth. I saw it on the big screen that he was struggling.”