After the illusion of a front-row start in qualifying, it was back down to earth for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez in the Solidarity Barcelona MotoGP Sprint.

Struggling to feel comfortable on his final Gresini appearance, the eight-time world champion warned on Frid𓄧ay that a top five looked like his best-case scenario.

A tow from reig🌊ning champion and future team-mate Francesco Bagnaia put Marquez onto the front row in qualifying, a result he admitted was ‘not real’.

But contact with Pedro Acosta in the o🍎peꦍning turns of the Sprint left Marquez in seventh, where he finished.

Even without tha🌠t tangle, Marquez felt he couldn’t have done much more.

“After qualifying I was a bit more💞 optimistic, but then in the Sprint race, with that tricky first lap, we came back to our position,” said Marquez, who ruled out any bike damage from the contact.

“We have the pace to be from 5th to 10th and we were in 7th position. Honestly speaking without that first lap, our position was 6th, not 💯better.

“So for♒ tomorrow we need to improve, if not the race will be super l𓃲ong.”

He added: “I'm fighting, not against the bikeཧ, but against the circuit.

“In May the feeling was not bad. I could⭕ feel the limit of the track, but this weekend, I start in the oppo😼site way. Step by step I try to be more competitive, but I'm struggling.”

Mar𝕴quez's woes mean he has lost third in the world champion🅘ship to Enea Bastianini by five points heading into the final grand prix.

Bastiani𒈔ni finished second, betw༺een Bagnaia and Jorge Martin, in the Sprint.

Quizzed on Sunday’s title decider, which will see Martin need only a ninth place if 𓂃Bagnaia wins, Marquez said:

“I think P9 f🧸or Jorge is easy, but racing is racing.”

And his advice?

“Pe🎶cco needs to do what he did today… And Jorge needs to do what he did today!” Marquez laughed.