An “angry” Francesco Bagnaia says a poor start with his Ducati’s꧙ clutch and an overheating front tyre in the MotoGP San Marino Grand ꧒Prix sprint allowed Jorge Martin to beat him.

Bagnaia topped Friday practice at𓆉 Misano and then qualified on pole with a new lap record on Saturday morning, while championship leader Martin struggled to fourth.

But at the꧅ start of the 13-lap sprint, Martin launched himself into the lead ahead of Bagnaia and headed him to the chequered flag to extend his championship advantage to 26 points.

Bagnaia ran close with Martin in the first half of the sprint, but by the cheque🌠red f𒅌lag the gap between the pair was 1.495s.

Th꧂e Italian says he is frustrated with himself because he fluffed his st🅠art. And because his pace was so similar to Martin’s, he couldn’t find anywhere to overtake him and subsequently overheated his front tyre.

“I’m angry with my performance, because I did a bad start, I didn’t find a good start with the clutch and I lo🐻st ꦇthe first place,” Bagnaia told TNT Sport.

“And we know perfectly how difficult it is in this track to overtake🌠 when you have the same pace as the guys in front of you.

“I was tಞrying the first 𝓡laps but then the front tyre became too hot and I started losing it.

“So, I didn’t have any chance of overtaking Joꦜrge. This afternoon he was just faster… not faster, but he did a better job for su🦩re.

“We have to improve for tomorrow because we can’t do another🌠 start like this.”

Bagnaia also noted after jumping off his Ducati: “I was losing a bit on the exits of Tu🍷rns 6, 8 and 10, I w🐈as sliding quite a bit on the bike, I was behind and everything changed.

“When you're riding alone everything is perfect, 🐟but when you have dirꦑty air the bike behaves differently.”

After his difficult Aragon weekend, Bagnaia says it was “important” he still managed to finish second - ✤even if he has ceded more ground to Martin in the standing🧔s.

Looking ahead to the grand prix, Bagnaia believes it will be a different race to the sprint on the medium re🔯ar.

This was the ty꧋re Bagnaia put s🅺ome impressive race pace on in Friday practice, though he thinks some will try and use the soft.

“Forܫ sure, after what happened in Aragon, it was important t🅺o finish the race - doing the maximum, but finishing the race,” he added.

“And we did it. But for tomorrow it will be a diffe♔rent r𒉰ace with the medium.

“You can’t push like you want with the medium and you have to be more carefu♊l in the first laps.

“I think that some riders will try to go with the soft because today it was quite good apart from in the last two, three laps. But I think it will also be 𒊎a g♏ood choice for tomorrow.”