A fourth place for Marco Bezzecchi 😼came at the Em🔯ilia-Romagna MotoGP despite an off-trend tyre choice.

The Italian was the only one of the 22 MotoGP riders last Sunday to choose the soft-compound rear tyre. Enea Bastianini had chosen it in the San Marino Grand Prix two weeks📖 earlier at the same Misano World Circuit but had 🌞found himself running out of grip at the end.

Bezzecchi’s result in Emilia-Romagna might have been worse than Bastianini’s in San Marino, but the f🏅ormer was nonetheless able to secure his best Sunday result at the second Misano rac💞e since his podium in Jerez with his odd-ball tyre choice.

“It was a positive race,” Bezzecchi told MotoGP.com after the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix. “I got a good start, and⛦ in the first couple of corners, as always, I’m struggling a bit, but 🍸I was fighting very hard.

“I was the only one with the soft [compound rear tyre], so it was a little bit [of] a gamble, but we worked very well with that tyre, so I was also quite sure thatꦬ I could ๊manage very well until the end.

“After, when I was behind Marc [Marquez], tried to follow him, I got closer𝄹 and closer when we catch Pedro🌠 [Acosta].

“Then Pedro made a mistake and I started to lose a bit from Marc, but I was anyway able to keep a g🌠ood di🥂stance and not lose too much like in the past races.

“So, very happy, beꦐcause my rhythm finally was quite consistent through all the 27 laps and it was a solid weekend.”