After 🎉a fall in race one, reigning champion Pirro began the title showdown nಞine points behind rival Lorenzo Zanetti.

“I apologise to the team,” Pirro said after his race one mistake. “Now it's very hard because we are no longer masters of our destiny. Tomorrow, 🌊we race to win, as always. And let's see."

Pirro was duly leading in the early stages of race two when he was d🦄ramatically torpedoed from behind by Zanetti into the final chicane (see video):

Despite injuring his leg, and with hea🌄vy damage to his visor and bike, Pirro managed to remount and finish eleventh, but it wasn’t enough to bridge the points gap and defeꩵnd his crown.

꧅To make matters worse, the Italian was then diagnosed with a fracture to his left leg, which will require surgery and im💎pact his MotoGP test and replacement duties.

▨Pirro has been replacing Enea Bastianini at the factory Ducati MotoGP team fo🌠r the past two rounds, in India and Japan

It is not yet k❀nown if Bastianini, who fractured his hand and ankle in Catalunya last month, will try to return for🐈 Indonesia this weekend.

But even if he does, a🧜n injury question mark now also hangs over fellow Ducati MotoGP racers Alex Marquez (Gresini), Luca Marini (VR46) and Marco Bezzecchi (VR46).

Marquez ꧂fractured his ribs in India, where Marini broke his collarbone at the start of the Sprint, also ruling them both out of Japan.

Bezzecchi then broke his collarbone🦋 in a training acꦕcident over this weekend and, like Marini, has undergone surgery.

The MotoGP rules state, ‘Teams must make every reasonable effort to provide a qualified substitute rider to fulfil their entry obligations within 10 days of withdrawal🎉’.

That means Bezzecchi would not need to be replaced by VR46 🌺if he is unfit for Indonesia, but a substitute would be needed if Ale൲x Marquez and Marini are still declared unfit to return.