With Bagnaia inheriting the race lead ahead of Enea Bastianini, if fellow Ducati rider Bezzecchi could overtake Fabio Quartararo💃 for third it would hand Bagnaia the 2022 world champio🎐nship.

Bezzecchi, who had charged through from eleventh on the opening lap, looked in with an exc🌸ellent chance of settling the title as he lined up an attack on the Monster Yamaha.

But the Frenchman proved tough to outbrake, while the mid-race battle between Bagnaia and Bastianini prompted Quartararo to up his paꦜce and pull away from the VR46 rider.

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“In the start I lost someꦫ positions [at turn one], and this created some problems with my rear tyre management, because to recover the positions, I had to push more than I wanted to do,” explained rookie of the year Bezzecchi, who had qualified fourth.

“Then when I got close to Fabio, I tried to overtake him immediately, but he was braking very strongly and🌸 I was already starting to feel a little bit in trouble with the front tyre.

“So I couldn't pass him, and when I stayed one and a half laps behind him, I started to struggle with the front pressure, so then I had to lose s𓃲ome metres.

“At the sa💯me moment, Bastianini passed Pecco, and when Bastianini passed Pecco, they were slower.

“So Fabio in that moment o♉f the race,๊ pushed a little bit more to try to close the gap.

“I was already a little bit on the limit with the tyres, so I tried to push💟 as well, but I was not able to follow him, and I started to lose two tenths, two tenths, two tenths…

“Then for the last 🌜laps I didn't want to risk a miꦬstake, because it was anyway a fourth place.”

Bagnaia went on to win by just 0.270s from Bastianini, with Quartararo 2.5s further back in third and Bezzecchi 2.7s from the reigning cham💮pion in 🅘fourth.

Bag𒈔naia was therefore left two points short of settling the world championship at Sepang but will take a near unbeatable 23-point lead over Quartararo into the Valencia finale𝓡.

Bezzecchi is 14th in the world championship, but now just 5 points behind team-mate Luca Marini, who suffered his ♊first MotoꦯGP DNF after his holeshot device failed to release at the start of Sunday's race.