Enea Bastianini concedes his hopes of winning the 2024 MotoGP title are still “distant” despite closing his points deficit in the Indonesian 🔜Grand Prix sprint.

The factory Ducati rider brushed off a “disaster” start, in which he dropped one place from fifth on the grid, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:in the sprint race ꦇat Mandalika on Saturday to miss the win to his team-mate Francesco Bagnaia by just 0.107s.

With championship leader Jorge Martin scoring no points after a crash out of the lead on lap one, Bastianini’s second-place finish means he is now just 50 points behind the P🍨ramac rider.

But asked, given the latest mistake for Martin, if h🍸is chances at fighting for the title were now stronger, Bastianini said: “Now I am much closer, 50 points can be better compared to yesterday.

“Well, it’s a target, can be my target. But to be🥀 realistic it’s a bit distant, this objective for me. But let’s see.”

Bastianini set the fastest lap of the🦋 sprint and was gene⛦rally the quickest rider throughout the 13-lap contest.

With a better start, fighting for victory is something he feels would ❀have been possible.

“Probably with a better start it was much easier to f🍃ight for the victory,” he added.

“After, you don’t know if you can win.

“But ♔without any rider in front of me, I can be much faster, I can brake how I want and can be a solution to win the race.”

During Friday’s practices, Bastianini had some of the best race pace and remains a favourite to battle for victory in S🧔unday’s grand prix.

“Will 𒅌be difficult tomorrow because the medium tyre needs two, three laps to be ready,” he👍 cautioned.

“And yesterday I made my best after 20 laps of tyre. Thi⛎s is good, but also wꦇe need to check the start.

“Maybe, I don’t know if I can use the soft for tomorrow - I have to check now. With the medium, after these two, three laps💃 I had a good pace.”

Bastianini made a late overtake on Marc Marquez to take second from at Turn 12 on t🌊he penultimate lap.

It didn’t cause the controversy his last lap move on Martinꦑ for the win at Misano last week did, and the Italian admits it wasn’t something that pla🌠yed on his mind when he passed Marquez.

“No, I didn’t think about this,” he said.

“It’s a bit easier to overtake🌌 in that𝓡 corner compared to what happened in Misano.”