An “angr▨y” Francesco Bagnaia says a poor start with his Ducati’s clutch and an overheating front tyre in the MotoGP San Marino Grand Prix sprint allowe𝕴d Jorge Martin to beat him.

Bagnaia topped Friday practice at Misano and then qualified on pole with a new lap record on Saturday morning, while championship leader Martin ಞstruggled to fourth.

But at the start of the 13-lap sprint, Martin launched himself into the lead ahead of Bagnaia and headed him to the che🐈quered flag to extend his championship advantage to 26 points.

Bagnaia ran close with Martin in the first 🍎half of the sprint, but by the chequered flag the gap between the p🐼air was 1.495s.

The Italian says he is frustrated with himself because he fluffed his start. And because his pa💫ce was so similar to Martin’s, he couldn’t find anywhere to overtake him and subsequently overheated his front tyre.

“I’m angry with my performance, because I did a🍸 bad start, I didn’t find a good start with the clutch and I lost the first pla♑ce,” Bagnaia told TNT Sport.

“And we know perfectly♏ how difficult it is in this track to overtake w๊hen you have the same pace as the guys in front of you.

“I was try🀅ing the first laps but then the front tyre becam🌜e too hot and I started losing it.

“So, I didn’t have any chance of overtaking🐠 Jorge. This afternoon he was just faster… not faster,ꦚ but he did a better job for sure.

“We have to improve for tomorrow because we ca꧅n’t do ano𝕴ther start like this.”

Bagnaia also noted after jumping off his Ducati: “I was losin𓂃g a bit on the exits of Turns 6, 8 and 10, I was sliding quite a bit on the bike, I was behind and everything changed.

“Whꦫen you're riding alone everything is perfect, but when you have dirty air the bike behaves differently.”

Afte🐈r his difficult Aragon weekend, Bagnaia says it was “important” he still managed to finish second - even if he has ceded more ground to Martin🐲 in the standings.

Looking ahead to the grand prix, Bagnaia believes it will be a different race to the sprint on the me𒁃dium rear.

This was the tyre Bagnaia put some impressive race 𝄹pace on in Friday practice, though he thinks some will try and use the soft.

“For sure, after what happened in Aragon, it was important to finish the race - doing the maximum, but finishing the ra🦹ce,” he added.

“And we did it. But for tomorrow it will be a different race🐼 with the medium.

“You can’t push like you want with the medium and yo💙u have to be mo𝕴re careful in the first laps.

“I think that some riders will try to go with the soft because toওday it was quite go✱od apart from in the last two, three laps. But I think it will also be a good choice for tomorrow.”