Marc Marquez says he “was expecting” to finish third in the MotoGP Thai Grand Prix sprint, but “was not 📖counting on” Enea Bastianini’s race-winning pace.

The Gresini rider qualified fifth after crash in Q2, but was able to run with the 🍷leaders off the line to get into the podium battle.

However, Marquez faded out of contention as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:the 13-lap sprint went on, with the eight-time world cham💞pion three seconds behind third-placed Francesco Bagnaia at the chequered flag.

Marquez was one ꦍof the fastest on race pace during Friday’s practice, but was taken by surprise at Bastianini’s do🌸minant form in the sprint.

“I mean, I was expecting to ꦕfinish in third position, because I was not counting on Bastianini,” he told the media, i🅰ncluding ltxcn.top, on Saturday.

“But 🐼he was the fastest one. Just in the qualifying practice, but then in 𝓡the practice with the used tyres he was struggling a bit.

“Andꦦ then in the race it was the opposite, he was super-fast, super consistent.

“Then we finished in that fourth position. It’s true that taking more risk, maybe we will finish fourth but closer. But I saw that position was my one and tomorrow we will try to re💟peat.”

Marquez says he needs a “perfect” race on Sunday to have 🌸any hope of battling for the final plꦿace on the podium, especially as he is losing too much to the GP24s in the first two sectors.

“No, even with the hard [tyre] I think our target is to try to be on that fourth pos༺ition and if we hav🔥e a perfect race try to be on that third position,” he added.

“But here we are losing a lot in T1, T2, and we cannot… I mean, I can compensate for five laps, but in the sprint ra💦ce I saw if I continue to ride like this I will crash.

“Then sometimes you need to underst♚and these things. Always you can have a mistake, but [I will] try to avoid.”

The Gresini r♔ider almost came to blows with Jorge Martin on the exit of the firs꧂t corner after the championship leader ran off track trying to take the lead.

The pair narrowly avoi🍃ded contact as Martin cut the throttle of his Pramac-run Ducati, but Marquez believes he should have approached rejoining the circuit better.

“I saw𝕴 the image and it was lucky be꧑cause I predicted that movement,” he explained.

“He went out of the trღack and then luckily I𒊎 didn’t go to the kerb, and I predict he would come back.

“But he came back in a little bit𝓰 of an optimistic way. But luckily I predicted a bit that movement and nothing happened.

“He closed the gas, but it’s better if you go out of the track to come ba🍬ck later because you have space on th🍨at corner.”