The Ducati star has dropped a disastrous 91 points from Fabio Quartararo after losing control of his Desmosedici while holding station behi👍nd the Frenchman in the early laps at the Sachsenring.

The frustrated Italian insisted 💯there was no reason for his accident and nothing unusual on th♏e data.

“Looking at the data, it's impossible to understand,ꦜ” Bagnaia said last weekend. “I can't explain it. I'm very angry, because when you crash and you know why, if it's you💎r mistake, normally I'm very self critical. But today, the reason I crashed is something I can't explain.”

Howe🤪ver, after analysing not only this season’s accidents but the style of past race victories dating back to Moto2, Bagnaia believes he’s spotted a common scenario.

“Three times I have crashed this year. The first time in Qatar I was pushing because I was behind. But the other two times, in the same moment that I said ‘I will be m♚ore calm🌄, breathe and then come back’, I crashed,” Bagnaia explained.

“I don't know about the other bikes, but my feelingౠ is that when you are not pushing on these tyres, maybe it's more easy to crash. It’s so💯mething strange, but it's the only thing that comes to me when I'm thinking why I crashed.”

In addition to potentially affecting tyre performance or be♑havior, Bagnaia acknowledged that the decision to relax could also be having m🦄ental consequences.

“I want to say that I never lose concentration during the race, but maybe thinking to be more calm🎐 and breathe is not something that helped me,” he said.

“Because if we look at the races when I start first and push, I don't ha🅺ve this type of pr🔯oblem. Just controlling the gap from [the rider behind] is not a problem.

“So I have to concentrate on being more focused in a situation where I'm not first, when I don’t have 🤪a small lead of 6-7 tenths and work on that moment.

“I’m sure we are not speaking about having too much pressure, because I think that a🥀ll riders have worked a lot over all the years before arriving in Moto♒GP and we can manage well the pressure.

“But the problem is that in my case, also when I won in Moto2, I won 8 races and all the 8 race wins were me in front and pushing [🐼all the🐻 time].

“I also think I'm 𓄧good on the fighting, because when I have to come back [through the field] no𒁏rmally I can do it.

“But in𒆙 a situation where the race starts to be [stable]… I have to be more maybe focused on pushing 💜all the time.

“I'm just thinking about this, because I really want to improv🌱e myself, and it's something maybe that I have to improve.”

Francesco Bagnaia fastest on day one at Assen

Bagnaia, who also lost big points when he was taken out in Barcelona and finished 15th in the wet Mandalika race, helped put the Sachsenringꦛ misery behind him by being fastest during Friday practice in The Netherlands.

“I feel g🍰reat, also this morning in the 🍌wet, I felt better than Portimao or Mandalika,” he said.

“And in dry, the most impressive thing was to be just one tenth slower than my best lap time in last year’s r🐓ace.

“So I feel great today with my bike because the conditions for sure weren’t the best, but we were able to do good work,🐎 also in terms of setting so I’m happy about that.”

Assen had been one of the Desmosedici's toughest ci🦄rcuits last season, but the latest fairing has helped address the corner entry issues.

"Today I'm one second faster than [Friday practice] last year, so for me the improvements we have done will help us a lot in tracks like this," Bagnaia said. "What I can see is that I can enter faster in the faster corners, which is where I was losing a lot o💛f time compared to Fabio last year.

"The base of the bike is similar [to last year], but this new fairing is hel♔ping us."

Team-mate Jack Miller was f♒🐈astest in the wet morning session and then fourth in the afternoon.