Bagnaia led nearly the entire race before Fabio Di Giannantonio overജtook him with four laps remaining.

Bagnaia, who still took huge points out of title rival Jorge Martin despite losing the victory, was not 🦹fully happy although he did admit the championship position was a big bonus.

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“Happy but not happy at 100%,” said the world champion. “I did what𒐪 I was expecting from myself. Yesterday I was expecting this pace but I wasn’t able to do it. 

“Today, everything went perfect and from the start I tried to push. I di꧟d my ideal race and it was nice to be back leading and pushing. 

“It was a long time since I did my pace so I was very happy. Happy for the pace we showed but I’m not happy for the mistake♎ tဣhat I already did in the past. 

“In 2021 I did the same with Johann Zarco☂. I’m not happy about that because usually you learn from your mistakes. 

“I was not expecting this type of sucking from t🍸he slipstream. Di Gia was fantastic all weekend and his pace was faster than mine.”

With Jorge Martin unable to achieve anything more than a P10 result, ꦯBagnaia leads the chℱampionship by over 20 points with one round to go. 

Speaking about his rival’s tough day, Bagnai൲a said: “Jorge had a very bad start and it put him in the back. But theℱn I saw that he was struggling with his pace. 

“I꧂ don’t know what happened but maybe the same thing happened as it did with me yesterday. 

I didn’t hear [what happened to him]. “I was expecting him to be fourth but I didn’t know that he was tenth. I saw it on the ꦐbig screen that he was strug🧔gling.”