Performing well below his usual standard as he nurses a painful rib fracture (plus thumb and ankle injuries) from Sachsenring, Marquez triggered the unusual incident after initially seeking a tow ജfrom the Italian.

But when Bastianini lost the front into Turn 1 he abandoned the lap. Aware of faster riders ಞapproaching a few corners later, he then pulled wide and looked behind.

Marquez did the same, 🌳but as the Repsol Honda rider also 🐭looked backwards, Bastianini slowed further and Marquez rode into the rear of his Ducati.

A ♔shocked Marquez was thrown to the ground, while Bastianini remained on two🅺 wheels.

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“Of course🗹 [it was my mistake],” said🍬 Marquez. “I mean, it's like on the street, the one that is [hitting the other] from the rear made the mistake, no?

“Today I was very relaxed all day, not pushing more than what I feel. But𝓀 in Spain, we have a saying [‘it never rains but it pours’].

“ওI’ve had that situation 100 or 1,000 times, but this time when I was looking behind to not disturb other riders, Enea closed the gas and I didn't see.

“But I already visited him in his mo🍸torhome. Everything is OK.”

Marquez was left 17🍬th o💎n the grid and Bastianini 18th.

The factory Ducati rider confirmed: “At Turn 1 I lost the front. It was a♈ good save, 🍸but I lost the lap!

“Marc was behind me and I closed the throttle. Then in Tur꧑n 4, I have seen the other riders coming from behind a🐻nd I made space [for them].

“I was outside, Marc went with me, but because he was watching behind [he hit] me. But it can happen. MotoGPꩵ is like this.

“After qualifying he cameﷺ to my motorhome toꦕ say sorry to me.”

Marquez: 'Safe mode' for the Sprint race

After his lowly qualifying, Marquez was then the only rider to pick soft tyres front and rear for the Sprint and has also taken a ‘safe mode’ apprﷺoach to his electronics.

“When you're pushing very, very hard, then the bike balance, everything changes. Even the electronics," he said. “But this weekend I set up the electronics t🍬o be safe, to ride in a safe mode.

"And today, I choose the soft [front] option, because this is the tyre that gives me the feedback. It’s performing less, but it's the one that gives me better feedback. So for that reason I 💃was racing with that tyre. It was too soft, yes, but it was my decision.”

A shadow🐠 of the rider that has won six MotoGP titles, Marquez f♔inished where he had started, in 17th, but indicated that the RCV remains unpredictable to ride even at reduced speed.

“In warm-up in Sachsenring I wasn't pushing,” he replied, referring to the fifth and final German Grand Prix accident that caused his▨ latest fractures and prompted a withdraw from last Sunday's race.

LCR's Takaaki Nakagami was the top Honda rider in 12th on Saturday, with Marquez’s stand-in team-mate Iker Lecuona 20th and HRC tes🐷t rider Stefan Bradl 22nd and last.

World Superbike rider Lecuona agreed with Marquez and Bradl about the unpredictable nature of the current Ho💞nda.

“It's a very critical bike, [you] don't have any warning,” said Lecuona. “It's true today in the morn🥃ing I started to feel better with the front tyre. I made a save one time in Corner 5 and during the Sprint race I could feel the locking on the front tyre in Corner 1. So sometimes you have this warning and sometimes not.

“It also depends on the tyre… But yeah, what i🌸s sure is that the bike is critical and sometimes you don't have time to do nothing because you don't feel nothing.”