Like iꦦn Sachsenring, Bagnaia took an early lead during the 13-lap sprint before se🧸eing another Ducati come through and clear off. 

🔴Jorge Martin seven days ago, this time it was Bezzecchi who was already a two-time winner this season ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚprior to today’s sprint race.

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Those wins both came in a Grand Prix setting, meaning 🔯Bezzecchi is now just the🥂 third rider to have won a main race and a sprint.

But for Bagnaia, the reigning c🎶hampion still increased his series lead despite losing points to his fellow Ducati rider, and after giving everything he had, the Italian was content with his performance. 

"I’m happy! I tried everything and w▨hen you try everything and don’t succeed, you can still be happy🌠. 

"I was trying to close the gap to Bez, but unluckily, ✃in the last two laps I started to feel like I was risking too much. 

"The rear was a bit on the limit so I decided to slow down a bit and control🎃 the gap from behind. Yesterday morning was quite tough but we improved our situation a lot. 

"In the qualifying I was feeling great so I tried to push but the first sector 🤪is where I’m losing a lot. We have to understand why. 

"Apart from that I’m happy with the feeling. The new bike [here] needs some more laps but we already know where to improve and whe𝔍re we can do a little step for♕ tomorrow."

Bagnaia🧔 appeared to struggle late on as Brad Binder and Fabio Quartararo significantly reduced his advantage.

And 𒐪although he was having issues with his rear tyre, Bagnaia admi꧂tted it was more to do with no taking any risks. 

🃏Bagnaia said: "I was knowing the gap behind and ♊I was just trying to control as much as I could. 

"In the last two l💦aps I was getting a lot of chatter from the rear. I was risking too ෴much to continue pushing and I saw that it was 1.3 seconds behind, so I decided to slow down a bit. 

"It was quite trick💎y in the right corners and I wa♒s losing a bit."