Marc Marquez says he “was expecting” to finish third in the MotoGP Thai Grand Prix sprint, but “was not counting on” Enea Bastianini’s raceꦐ﷽-winning pace.

The Gresini rider qualified fifth after crash in Q2, but was able to💛 run with the leaders off the line to get into the pᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚodium battle.

However, Marquez faded out of contention as 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:the 13-lap sprint went on, with the eight-time worl🤡d champion three seconds behind thi༺rd-placed Francesco Bagnaia at the chequered flag.

Marquez wa♏s one of the fastest on race pace during F🌜riday’s practice, but was taken by surprise at Bastianini’s dominant form in the sprint.

“I mean, I was expecting to finish in third position, because I w♒as not counting on Bastianini,” he told the media, including wuqian0821.com, on Saturday.

“But he was the fastest one. Just in the qu♚alifying practice, but then in the practice with the used꧅ tyres he was struggling a bit.

“Anꦇd then in the race it was the opposite, he was super-fast, super consisten🉐t.

“Then we finished in that fourth position. It’s true that taking more risk, maybe we will finish fourth𒁏 but closer. But I saw that position was my one and tomorrow we will try to repeat.”

Marquez says he needs a “perfect” race on Sunday to have any hope of 🍌battling for the final place on the podium, especially as he is losing too much to the GP24s in the ꩲfirst two sectors.

“No, even with the hard [tyre] I think our target is to try to be on that fourth positཧion and if we have a perfect race try to be on that third position,” he added.

“But here we are losing a lot in T1, T2, and we cannot… I mean, I can compensate for five laps, but in the sprint race I saw if I continuꦜe t﷽o ride like this I will crash.

“Then sometimes you need to understand these things. Always you can have🌌 a mistake, but [I will] try to avoid.”

The Gresini rider almost came to blows with Jorge Martin on the exit of the first corner after the champi🧔onship leader ran off track trying to take the lead.

The pair narrowly avoided contact as Martin cut the throttle of his Pramac-run Ducati, but Marquez believes he should hav☂e approached rejoining th✅e circuit better.

“I saw the image and💝 it was lucky because I pre✤dicted that movement,” he explained.

“He went out of t꧂he track and then luckily I didn’t go to the kerb, and I predict he would come back.

“But he came back in a littl𒁏e 𝕴bit of an optimistic way. But luckily I predicted a bit that movement and nothing happened.

“He closed the gas, but it’s better if y🦩ou go out of the track to come back later because you have space on thaౠt corner.”