Enea Bastianini finish🧸ed third in the MotoGP Sprint in Malaysia, but was unhappy with his bike.

Bastianini has complained in recent races about being unable to make use of the kind of late race pace that saw him charge to victory in both Silverstone and the second Misano rac🐽e earlier this year.

“Not happy, because every time we hav🦹e the same problem and we don’t resolve this prob✨lem,” Bastianini said.

“Usually, the last part of the race was my strౠongest part but now it’s not like this, and the problem is we don’t know what happened, we don’t know in which area we have to work.

“We have to work a lot this afternoon and tonight to be much faster for tꦛomorrow."

The Italian rider a🐭dded that front feeling, as well as the ability to use his well-known late race pace, was missing from his current performance.

“I’m m♕issing the feeling with the front, every time it starts to move,” he said. “But, it’s too much. In this track with this hot temperature it’s a bit more.”

Ba🅠stianini, who won the 2023 Malaysian Grand Prix, said that he wasn’t sure he would be able to rectify his problems for Sunday’s race.

“It depends because every time I’m going inside without any expectations bec☂ause every time I have a different sensation on the bike,” he said.

“Maybe tomo😼rrowꦯ will be better and we can fight for the victory but I’m not really confident to be like this.”

Bastianini’s relatively poor feeling with his Ducati in Sepang saw him fall further behind Marc Marquez in the battle for third in the championship, as Marquez took second place. Bastianini is now 13 points behind with two Grands Prix ꦡand one Sprint to go.

“I expected that 💛he [Marquez] is fast,” Bastianini said, in regards to Marquez’s struggles over the course of the weekend in Sepang.

“He is M🔯arc [Marquez], he is not the last rider in MotoGP. Marc is veryꦉ strong, and it’s difficult to fight with him when he’s too strong like today.”

No championship considerations on Sunday, “I want to win”

Even if Bastianini feels he is unlikely to be able to win on Sunday, it remains his target, and he assured that the championship battle between Jorge Martin and Francesco Bag𒊎naia will not a🍌ffect how he will race them.

“My standard is always to push and not 🎃to think a lot about the situation, the championship standing,” he said🐭.

“Jorge [Martin] and Pecco [Francesco Bagnaia] stay fighting for the championship, and it’s normal I don’t want to commit any mistakes with those guys. But we arꦜe competing and it’s normal if we fight.♒”

Bastianini also had his opinion on the title battle itself, as Martin pulled to 29 points clear in Sepang after Bagnaia🤪 crashed out of second place early on in the Sprint.

“I think [Jorge] Martin tomorrow has the 🎉chance to win the title, but in this world everything can chang𒅌e,” Bastianini said.

“It’s easyꦜ to do mistakes in the track, because the temperature is too hot and we are a lot on the limit every lap, and tomorrow we have 20 laps.

“I have to do the b🍃est race possible tomorrow, and if 𝓰I can win I want to win.”