Fabio Quartararo says he wouldn💞’t have been able to sleep until the next MotoGP round in Japan if he didn’t gamblღe with a last corner overtake on Marc Marquez.

After leading every lap of the Thailand MotoGP from pole position with Marquez stalking him the pa♔ir had a last-lap duel for victory at the Chang In🌳ternational Circuit.

The Repsol Honda rider made his initial move at the Turn 3 hairpin 🤪after bolting ahead on the long straight but with Quartararo faster through the final two sectors of the track it set up a showdown at the final corner.

The Petronas Yamaha rider dived up the inside under braking but couldn’t stop his YZR-M1 close enough to the corner apex to block Marquez from charging inside and sprinting t🉐o victory.

The race mirrored the pair’s race-long victory scrap at Misano earlier this season which ended in the same result, but the Thailand race gave the MotoGP rookie more frustration at missingꦏ out on🤪 a maiden win.

“At Misano at the end I didn’t try anything in the last corner. Here we tried someth꧙ing,” Quartararo said. “I overtook him but I didn’t really know if he could enter the corner and then close, but I saw his wheel and I was really frustrated.

“I was close to the chequered flag so really frustrated but really happy about fighting with Marc because we know that this year apart from Austi🏅n he is always on th🤡at podium and I think for many years he is the reference of MotoGP.

“Honestly in this moment my brain was off. I said I will try becau𒈔se if not and𝓡 I didn’t try a move I would go home and I wouldn’t sleep until Japan so I tried.

“We knew that at Turn 12 it is nꦯot gravel on the ex🃏it so I tried and if not I would go wide.”

Despite his frustrations, Quartararo t🎐ried to take the positives from the race fighting the new eight-timeౠ world champion in his rookie MotoGP campaign.

“Mixed emotions of course but we can be proud of what we did today because we were challenging the eight-time♋ world champion in the last corner of the last lap,” he said.

“We can o💧nly be happy with what we achieved today with the team and we are going step by step but this one was really close. We were first at the last corner and I tried to stop the bike but it was not possible.

“So I am rꦜeally looking forward to the next race already to work and to try to♎ challenge this guy again.”

Quartararo has strengthened his grip on the top Independents’ title by extending his advantage to 24 points over nearest rival P𝐆ramac Ducati’s Jack Miller.

The Fren𓆉ch rider has also moved to within two points of factory Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi in the overall standings.