Alex Rins starts the MotoGP summer break w✅ith a meagre ten points from the sꦕeven rounds since returning to Europe from Qatar.

After a string of accidents and then a wrist fracture during a bicycle accident before Catalunya, Rins rode to eleventh on his return to Suzu💞ki duties at the Sachsenring.

Just a few d﷽ays later and the Spaniard looked much stron🐻ger at Assen, believing he was poised to be part of the podium fight after climbing from seventh to fifth on the opening lap.

But Rins' hopes of a strong race ended soon after when contact from Johann Zarco during a pass at Turn 10 sent Rins wide into the gravel, re-j♑oining 22nd and last.

"I think everybody saw it. Very very unlucky. I mean, if I wasn't there, maybe hꦚe goes wide," Rins said. "I didn't expect that overtake, and the problem was his wing hit my arm, and I had the wing down my arm.

"So the only thing that was possible to do was to pick up the bike to avoid him. And I went to the gra𓃲vel, last position, trying later to recover a bit of time.

"Very unlucky because the lap time was there. The pace was good, it was not to win, but it was to finish in the top 3, top 4. Buꦫt he destroyed our race.

"Since he came to MotoGP in 2017, he is so aggressive on the overtakes. But I mean, it was an ꦐidiotic mo🐻ve, because he's there, fighting for the world championship, so imagine if we had crashed together. It makes no sense."

Does the close nature of MotoGP this season mean passing has inevitably ꧑become more ♈aggressive?

"I don't know. If you ask other riders, maybe one or two riders would complain about me. But I overtook a lot of riders today during this race, because I was last and I finishe﷽d in P11, and I think nobody can complain about my overtaking. So that's all," Rins said.

Zarco, who went on to finish fourth and remains second in the world championship, was unaware of Rins'𝐆 anger but is ready to speak with him about the incident.

"I didn’t know that he was upset," said the Pramac Ducaಞti rider. "It's true tha♑t we had contact but it's not an easy corner and in that moment of the race I feel I want to stay with the top group.

"It was my strong area, Turns 9-10. I even tried to overtake Vinales in that place but Vinales was a bit faster, so I went wide. But with Rins it's true that we touched because wheꦑn you try to attack there, it's not easy to stay inside, but clearly I was fully under control.

"I don’t know what happened, if then he went totally outside of the track or not… As I sꦉaid, people can some straight to me if they need to speak. It's the way I'm doing it."

The contact w🌄as declared a 𒁃racing incident by the FIM Stewards.