After a controversial end to Qualifying 1 a week earlier at Aragon, when Ducati's MotoGP title contender Andrea Dovizioso lost a place in Q2 after towing team-mate Danilo Petrucci to a faster tim♓e, it was Dovizioso ꧙who benefitted from a tow in the same session this weekend.

The ri𒁃der leaving the pits just in front of Dovizioso as they began their crucial final run was Pramac Ducati's Jack Miller, fastest at that time.

When the Australian remained ahead of the Italian during his out-lap, then both sat-up at when Miller ran wide during his first flying lap, it looked liꩲke a Ducati strategy to try and aide Dovizioso was in play.

Miller towed Dovi for another complete flying lap, when the Italian rose 🌃to third place, and then most of the last lap, moving aside on the back straight with one corner to go.

But both would end up losing out.

Dovizioso was unable to break into the top two o🦄n his last lap, while Miller was bumped to fourth place and - in images similar 𒁃to a week ago with Dovizioso – threw a glove in frustration as he returned to the pits.

But his anger 𝓡wasn't at any team orders gone wrong, Miller said later, but a lack of tyre g✃rip.

"I was doing my laps, but the second tyre didn’t work… at all!" Mill꧃er said. "The first tyre I did that lap time relati𒁏vely easily and then the second one had no grip. So that was the main issue.

"Apart from that, I mean, yeah Dovi was behin✤d me. But it w🅺asn’t anything set-up or anything like that. It's the way the cookie crumbled."

Miller added: "It’s not going to be easy from 14th on grid. But we’ll try our maximum. I’🍸ve got Mir and Marquez in front of me and they were on the podium last weekend. We’ll see.

"We have to make a decision on the tyres. Then for the rest cross our fingers and hope something magical happens. At this time I can’🌄t really see that happening. But we’ll try. As always. Every Sunday I give my maximum and ꦇtomorrow will be no exception."

Dovizioso, having failed to advance to Qualifying 2 for the second week in a row, will line-up just 17th on the grid, four places further back than last weekend when he r♏ecovered to sev🐎enth.

"The bad thing is that the competitors improve from last week, but not us," said the triple title runner-up, who is c𓄧urrently fourth in the standings, 15 points from Suzuki's Joan Mir.

"For sure I will approach the race like always, to get the maximum points. But at the end iܫf you don't have the speed, you can't think about anything. You don't have pow🐠er to decide something.

"In this moment I don't🦂 think about the championship, because I don't think it's in my hands.

"We ⛄worked a lot on the setup, and we tried to adapt, but in the end, as you see, it didn't work."

Mir (Suzuki) will start from 12th place, with Yamaha's title contenders Fabio Quartararo and Maverick Vin🃏ales (Yamaha) 6th an💜d 4th respectively.