Bagnaia swept to his third doublꦯe victory, Sprint and Sunday races, of the year at the Red Bull Ring, extending his title lead to 6🐼2 points over Jorge Martin.

The Italian’s dominance is even greater in terms of race victories, winning 9 of the 20 races 🎀so far, with neཧxt best Martin and Marco Bezzecchi on just 3 wins each.

Meanwhil💙e, Ducati has only lost two out of the ten Sunday grands prix.

Qu♈artararo, who beat Bagnaia to the 2021 crown before the Ducati rider turned the tables last season, said: “No [I don’t see anyone stopping Bagnaia]. I think he's a little bit ‘Verstappen’ now.”

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“I think also like the previous years, he [Bagnaia] has the best bike, yes - but you can have th꧂e best bike and not do the results. It's a combination,” Quartararo continued.

“And it lꩲooks like now the combination [Bagnaia] has with the bike, the confidence he has with the bike - when you💟 are winning, winning, winning, you feel that you are unstoppable. And this is the feeling he has now.

“He looks easy on the bike, he knows how to use the bike. So right now, I don't see anyone who🍎 can really ൲be faster than him.”

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Quartararo was speaking after crossing the finish line almost 20-second🔜s behind Bagnaia, in ninth place at the Red Bull Ring.

“I give my 100%, so I'm happy with what I did,⛦” said the Monster Yamaha rider, before explaining why he dropped from eighth 🗹to twelfth in the early laps.

“At the beginning of the race, the grip that🔜 I had was super low. Then I lost a lot of positions, I made some mistakes to get ꧟back positions, I had to push a lot on the tyres, and I destroyed the tyres.

“So in the e𝐆nd I gave my 100%, ꦫand I'm happy with that.”

Winless for over a year a🎶nd with only two podiums from 20 races so far this season, Qu𒅌artararo admitted it had been difficult to reset his expectations to be happy with such results.

“To be honest, in the first part of the season - I've been fighting for the championship three yea🍰rs in a row, and now I'm fighting for the points. So of course the motivation was not especially there," he explained.

“But now I'm accepting to be fighting in this position, and it gives the mဣotivation back to at least give as m💦uch feedback as possible and at least try to enjoy a little bit.”

Quartararo was spendꦆing his second weekend with the new high-downforce Yamaha fairing and said some further ‘small updates’ might arrive for the upcoming Barcelona and Misano rounds.

Team-mate Franco Morbidelli finished Sunday’s race in 11th place, two seconds behind Quartararo. The Yama🅺ha riders are elev🍌enth (Quartararo) and twelfth (Morbidelli) in the world championship.

The five points the pair scored over Honda this w🌺eekend means Yamaha is now tied with HR💃C for last in the constructors’ standings.