Jorge Martin says he would have crashed without Marc Marquez doing so in front of him in th🗹e MotoGP Thailand Gra꧟nd Prix because he was able to anticipate losing the front.

The championship leader finished second in 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sunday’s wet Thai GP at Buriram while title riva🐷l Francesco Bagnaia dominated for a vital win.

Martin led briefly in the early stages but ran wide at Turn 3 on lap five and ꦆdropped behind Bagnaia and Marc Marquez.

Marquez crashed on lap 14 at Turn 8 while running second, with Marꦯtin having his own big front end scare directly behind him.

Speaki♍ng after the race, Martin says he was able to save his own crash bec🤪ause he saw Marquez go down in front of him - and would have lost the lead in the championship without it.

“From the beginning I was feeling super good, but straight away I saw that the feeling th🌃e feeling wasn’t the warm-up feeling,” Martin, whose championship lead has been cut to 17 points, began.

“I was sliding a lot from the rear. I waꦡs even increasing that gap꧅ and at that point I saw they had something else.

“I went wide in corner three and Pecco and Marc overtook me. Then I tried to stay close to them because I thought abouꦕt a potential move at the end of thꦐe race.

“But as soon as Marc crashed I✃ also lost the front the same as him. But I was a🎉ble to save it.

“I went wide, I was able to save that crash and at that point I was able to control the distance to Jack [Miller] and to Pedro [Acosta]ꦿ because they were comi⛎ng strong.”

He added: “I had a lot of moments during the race. I was always rea🔯lly close to crashing.

“So, I was always ready to save it. I saw Marc lose the fr🎶ont, so then I was prepared to losওe the front also.

“So, that’s how I saved it. I think without Marc in front of♛ m🦩e I would have crashed.

“So thanks to that… I’m sorry for him for sure, but thanks to the crash I was able to⛎ understand and a▨nticipate a bit.”

The rainfall prior to the race heaped tension on the title challengers, with Martin noting that “I don’t 𓃲want anybody to feel what I felt before the race: I think being Pecco or me at this stage of the championship in these conditions is not really good.”

But despite the scary race for Martin and losing out to Bagnai🔴a, he praised his rival and felt it was “a really good weekend” only to lose three points in the standings.

“Yeah, trust me it wasꦕ a really long race,” he 💮said.

“The 🌼last few⛎ laps I was thinking ‘fuck, I just want it to be dry’.

“I thought that in dry I had something more than Pecco at the moment, so I wanted it dr🌱y.

“He was super strong. I mean, he’s a great champi🌱on.

“He’s not a three-time world champion for nothing. He’s strong in♕ all the conditions. I just tried to give his pace and just losing three points is a really good weekend.”