Bagnaia and Marquez locked horns with one another within the latter phases of Sunday’s 25-lap grand prix at Jerez after early chief Jorge Martin crashed out.
Marquez chopped down a 1.2-second benefit Bagnaia held on lap 14 to get inside hanging vary on the twenty first tour.
As Marquez threw his Gresini Ducati up the within of Bagnaia, he ran barely extensive and on the cutback into Flip 10 the pair rubbed towards one another.
Bagnaia got here out on high and defended one other overtake try on lap 22 to carry on for the victory.
Regardless of the pair colliding on the Portuguese GP final month, Bagnaia says he loved his battle with Marquez and felt the contact they made was finished “in a wise means”.
“I loved the battle loads,” he instructed motogp.com’s After the Flag. “For positive, you understand whenever you battle Marc you need to put your elbows up as a result of the battle is intense.
“Truthfully, it was the one place I used to be in a position to defend as a result of I used to be realizing completely that he was very robust in nook seven and eight and I used to be listening to each lap that he was closing the hole.
“However I used to be actually robust within the entrance of nook 9. So, I used to be saying to myself ‘OK, I will not take a danger in nook eight however I’ll break so onerous in nook 9 to have slightly benefit’.
Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati Staff
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“And I knew that if I used to be braking this tough, he was for positive going to go a bit extensive. And I simply used this factor to shut the road and be in entrance once more.
“While you battle like this, you place it on the listing you could have this contact. I believed it was fairly easy and sensible, as a result of I used to be on the within.
“He simply tried to go round me, however as quickly as we arrived to the apex we touched.
“He picked up [the bike] a bit; I simply leant extra as a result of if I picked up too, I used to be happening the opposite facet. So, it was contact however in a wise means.”
Previous to Martin’s crash, Bagnaia was set to fall 47 factors behind his Pramac rival however is now simply 17 adrift.
And through his battle with Marquez, he admits he had no ideas of settling for second with a purpose to minimise a factors loss.
“It is too quickly to start out desirous about it [the title], and as quickly as Jorge crashed I felt higher with the bike and I began to push and I dropped the lap instances a bit,” he added.
“So, no, I by no means considered giving up and taking second place. I am not a man who in this type of second likes to surrender.”
