Bagnaia led nearly the entire race before Fa🧸bio Di Giannantonio overtook him with four laps remaining.

Bagnaia, who still took huge points out of title rival Jorge Martin despite losing the victory, was not fully happy although he did admit the▨ championꦰship position was a big bonus.

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“Happy but not happy at 100%,” said the world champion. “I did what I was expecting from myself. Yesterday I was expecting this pace but I wasn’t able to do it.&nbs💜p;

“Today, everything went perfect and from the start I tried to push. 🐟I did my id𒆙eal race and it was nice to be back leading and pushing. 

“It was a long time since I did my pace so I was very happy. Happy fo♚r the pace𒊎 we showed but I’m not happy for the mistake that I already did in the past. 

“In 2021 I did the same with Johann Zarco. I’m not happy about tha🅘t because usually you learn from yo꧒ur mistakes. 

“I was not expecting this type of sucking from the slipstream. Di Gia was fantas🌃ti⛦c all weekend and his pace was faster than mine.”

With Jorge Martin unable to achieve anything more than a P10 result, Bagnaia leads ♏the championship by over 20 points wi☂th one round to go. 

Speaking about his rival’s tough da💦y, Bagnaia said: “Jorge had ▨a very bad start and it put him in the back. But then I saw that he was struggling with his pace. 

“I don’t know what happened but maybe the same thing happ🤡ened as it did with me yesterday. 

I didn’t hear [what happened to him]. “I was exp🔥ecting him to be fourth but I didn’t know that he was tenth. I saw it on the big screen that he was s๊truggling.”