Esparga🍨ro, who was fifth at the time of his Sprint race crash, had four opportunities to keep hold of the lead due to red flags in both races resulting in the Sprint and Grand Prix to be restarted with the original grid positions. 

But on all f♔our occasions Espargaro was passed by both factory KTM riders Brad Binder and Jack Miller, while Jorge Martin was also able to pass the Aprilia man into turn oꩲne several times.

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But once he fell behind his competitors, Espargaro made very little progress as his feeling with the RS-GP23 was complꦜetely different to that of riding alone.  

Espargaro told : "I can’t be happy with fifth place. Last year, here, I achieved a podium and achꦛieved the pole position yesterday. I was aiming for a better result. We have to improve on Sunday. 

"The bike, when I’m riding alone in the practices, is very good, very competitive, very fast and has good stability. But wh♈en I’m in the mix fighting with the other bikes I can’t stop t🅷he bike and I don’t know why. 

"I have really bad feelings and I lose the front every ti🔜me I try to get closer to the o🅠ther riders to attempt and overtake. 

"I don’t really have a solution so we need to try and understand as soo𓆏n as possible."

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Binder and Miller were two of the best riders throughout the Spanish MotoGP round as they stood♔ on the podium during both races.

Binder’s best result was victory in the Sprint, his second win of the season after winning in Argentina, while Miller was third on both occa💯sion🐽s.

💧And af🐠ter following both riders for much of the two races, Espargaro claimed he was unable to ride the way Binder and Miller could which caused one of the problems he had when trying to overtake.

Espargaro added: "When I’m alone it’📖s a little bit easier. I 💟can stop the bike whenever I want and I can do my lines. Normally my line is not like KTM. 

"I can’t brake deep like them and then re-accelerate. I🌄t’s more 𝐆about flowing and corner speed. 

"Anyway, I can do my lines and go fast but when I get close to other bi✤kes everything is a lot worse."