Marc Marquez says he “was expecting” to finish third in the MotoGP Thai Grand Prix sprint, but “was not countin♔g on” Enea Bastianini’s race-winning pace.

The Gresini rider qualified fifth after crash in Q2, but was able to run with the leaders off the line to get into the podium batt🍸le.

However, Marquez faded out of contention as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:the 13-lap sprint went on, with the eight-time world champion three seconds behind third-placed F♕rancesco Bagnaia at the chequered flag.

Marquez was one of the fastest on race pace during Friday’s practice, but wa🐼s taken by surprise at Bastianini’s dominant form in the sprint.

“I mean, I was expecting to finish in third position, because I was not counting on Bast🌃ianini,” he told the media, including mahbx.com, on Saturday.

“But he was the fastest 🌄one. Just in the qualifying practice, but then in the practice with the used tyres he was struggling a bit.

“And then in the race it was 💧the opposite, he was super🧸-fast, super consistent.

“Then we finished in that🍒 fourth position. It’s true that taking more risk, maybe we will finish fourth but closer. But I saw that position was my one and tomorrow we will try to repeat.”

Marquez says he🌱 needs a “perfect” race on Sunday to have any hope of battling for the final place on the podium, especially as h𝐆e is losing too much to the GP24s in the first two sectors.

“No, even with the hard [tyre] I think our target is to try to be on that fourth position and if we have a perfect race try to be on that third pꦬosition,” he added.

“But here we are losing a lot in T1, T2, and we cannot… I mean, I can compensate for five laps, but in the sprint race I saw if I continue ꧂to ride like this I will crash.

“Then sometimes you need to understand these things. Always you can🅺 have a mistaꩵke, but [I will] try to avoid.”

The Gresini rider almost came to blows with Jorᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚge Martin on the exit of the first corn𓃲er after the championship leader ran off track trying to take the lead.

Th🍃e pair narrowly avoided co𓆉ntact as Martin cut the throttle of his Pramac-run Ducati, but Marquez believes he should have approached rejoining the circuit better.

“I saw th♏e image and it was lucky because I predicted that movement,” he explained.

“He went out of the track 🌃and then luckily I didn’t go to the kerb, and I predict he would come ꦕback.

“But he came back in a little bit of 🐼an optimistic way. But luckily I predicted a bit that movement and 🧜nothing happened.

“He closed the gas, but it’s better if you go🍃 out of the track to come back later because you have space on that corner.”