Espargaro was fourth, the same position he started the Aragon MotoGP for much of the race, as he struggled to find a way through on 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Brad Binder. 

But as the KTM rider struggled with grip during the closing stages, the Aprilia rider made a bold,🉐 but impressive move on the brakes at turn one. 

Despite getting ahead of Binder with two laps remaining, Esp🌊argaro had very high praise for the South African post-race: "Brad [Binder] is 🙈extremely good. One of the best riders on the grid without any doubt. 

"He doesn't have one of the best bikes but he’s always strong, always extracting the ꧙most from his bike. 

"The first𒆙 part of the race was difficult for me to overtake him because he was able to follow Enea [Bastianini] which was crazy. So I just stayed behind him and waited for his tyres to drop. Also, knowing Fabio [Quartararo] was out of the game you could not make a mistake."

Following Quartararo’s shocking lap one exit after making contact with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez which led to him crasꩵhing at turn four, Espargaro knew he had t🌱o score big points.  

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But on a weekend where he expected to fight for the win, Espargaro instead had to focus on rebuilding his conꦛfidence after crashing twice on Friday, something🔴 he believes put him on the back foot compared to Bagnaia and Bastianini. 

"The pressure was very high to arrive in Aragon because I knew that it was one of the best track💝s of the last part of the championship [for Aprilia, himself]," said Espargaro. 

"Maybe I started a little bit too hot and I crashed twice ജon Friday and so I lost completely the confidence. Saturday was a hard day and I was not able to put the bike in the top t𝐆en in FP3. 

"From FP3 I started to build again the confidence and I did a good qualifying, a solid 𓆉fourth place and in the race I didn’t have the pace to follow Pecco [Bagnaia] and Enea [Bastianini], I knew it. 

"In the race they had something extra all weekend but third pl☂ace is super good for the championship. I’m happy to be back on the podium."

Bagnaia takes advantage of ‘huge opportunity’ despite missing out on fifth MotoGP win in a row

Unlike🍸 Misano, Bagnaia was unable to fend off the late challenge from Bastianini, however, 20 points for second place haꦕs now seen the Ducati rider close to within 10 of Quartararo. 

Knowing that a mistake would have been devastating, Bagnaia was unwill𓂃ing to take too many risks when he was aware of th💛e pace Bastianini had.

Bagnaia said: "Today was very important not to🍨 commit any mistakes because Fabio [Quartararo] was unlucky and gave us a huge opportunity. 

"It was very important in the last lap to finish the rac𓄧e. When I saw that Enea [Bastianini] was so close to me I just tried to be calm and relaxed. 

"If he overtook me then I don’t want to take a🐽ny risks and just finish the race in the best way possible. 

"If I saw some mistakes then 𝐆I would try back, but he didn’t in the last lap. I’m happy with the result and I gave my best today. I think today we made a big difference compared to the others."