168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin set his best lap of the race on the penultimate lap of the Qatar MotoGP, as he began to reel in 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Brad Binder for second.

After winning Saturday’s sprint, Martin started from pole once again but lost the lead to Francesco Bagn💖aia midway through lap one.

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Happy with the podiu༺m, Martin felt he could have challenged Bagnaia had he produced a faster pac♍e sooner.

“I’m happy about the resu🍸lt,” began Martin. “If you asked me yesterday, being on the podiꦇum today was going to be really tough but maybe we had the potential to win. 

“I’m not 100% happy. I think I was too good on tyres at the beginning of the race and then Pecco overtook me an༒d everything changed a lot because my front pressure went a bit high.

“But the💧 pace was fast and with two laps to go I was able to make two [1m] 52.7 [lap times] to pull away from Marc and nearly catch Brad.

“We will take the p⛎ositives to Portimao, but I’m not riding 100% of the package with the new bike. If we improve I guess wಞe can be much more competitive.”

While Bagnaia made a habit of starting the main races quickly last seas✱on in order to get to the front and control his front tyre pressure, Marti🎐n did not expect that to be the case today.

The Prima Pramac rider added: “I expected us to be a bit more calm on the first few laps but as soon as he went to the front he was pushing; not like hell because෴ we couldn't due to the tyres, but he was pushing a lot.

“I tried to be fast but good on෴ the t🤪yres but then I had the battle with Brad which wasn’t helping at all.

“I think I could have been a bit faster but I’m happy. Hopefully we c🍎an be faster in Portimao.”

What Martin did do by upping his pace late on was hold of Marc Marquez on ꦬhis official Ducati debut.

The eight-time worlജd champion caught Martin with a few laps remaining before looking set to challenge the 2023 runner-up for the final podium place.

But unfazed by the pit board which told him number 93 was✅ less than two tenths behind, Martin ultimately gapped Marquez.

Speaking about the tense battle, Martin said: “At that point I had him for 10 laps at 0.3s. But with two 🐠laps to go I said ‘okay, now is time to push a bit more’.

“I was already at 98% and then I went at 100% to get this podium and it was 🍸worth it. Let’s see if I can have a bit more margin in Portimao.”