Espargaro was fourth, the same position he started the Aragon MotoGP for much of the race, as he struggled to find a way through on 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Brad Binder. 

But as the KTM rider struggled with grip 🌳during the closing stages, the Aprilia ܫrider made a bold, but impressive move on the brakes at turn one. 

Despite getting ahead of Binder with two laps remaining,⛦ Espargaro had very high praise for the South African post-rac♛e: "Brad [Binder] is extremely good. One of the best riders on the grid without any doubt. 

"He doꩵesn't have one of the best bikes but he’s always strong, 🦩always extracting the most from his bike. 

"The first part of thౠe race was difficult for me to overtake him because he was able to follow Enea [Bastianini] which was crazy. So I just stayed behind him and w⛎aited for his tyres to drop. Also, knowing Fabio [Quartararo] was out of the game you could not make a mistake."

Following Quartararo’s shocking lap one exit after making contact with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez which led to him crashing at turn four, E💃spargaro knew he had to score big points.&nbs🐼p; 

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But on a weekend where he expected to fight for the win, Espargaro instead had to focus on rebuilding his confidence after♛ crashing twice on Friday, something he believes put him on the back foot compared to Bagnaia and Bastianini. 

"The pressure was very high to arrive in Aragon because I kꦓnew that it was one of the best tracks of the last part of the championship [for Aprilia, himself]," sa🌱id Espargaro. 

"Maybe I started a little bit too hot and I crashed twice on Friday and so I lost completely the confidence. Saturday was a hard day and I was nꦇot able to put the bike in the top ten in FP3.&n🌄bsp;

"From FP3 I started to build again the confide൲nce and I did a good qualifying, a solid fourth place and in the race I didn’t have the pace to follow Pecco [Bagnaia] and Enea [Bastianini], I knew it. 

"In the race♚ they had something extra all weekend but third place is super good for 🧸the championship. I’m happy to be back on the podium."

Bagnaia takes advantage of ‘huge opportunity’ despite missing out on fifth MotoGP win in a row

Unlike Misano, Bagnaia was unable to fend off the late challenge from Bastianini, however, 20 points for second place has now seen the Ducati rid🌜er close to within 10 of Quartararo. 

Knowin🌟g that a mistake would have been devastating, Bagnaia was unwilling toꦑ take too many risks when he was aware of the pace Bastianini had.

Bagnaia said: "Today was very important not to commit𒆙 any mistakes because Fabio [Quartararo] was unlucky and gave us a huge opportunity. 

"It was very important in the last lap to finish the race. When I ✅saw that ♍Enea [Bastianini] was so close to me I just tried to be calm and relaxed. 

"If he overtook me then I don’t want to take any risks and just fin🔯ish the race in the best ๊way possible. 

"If I saw some mistakes then I would try back, but he didn’t in the last lap. I’m happꦺy with the result and I gave my best today. I think today we made a big difference compared to the others."