Bagnaia and Marquez locked horns with one another within the latter levels 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 large and on the cutback into Flip 10 the pair rubbed in opposition to 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 sensible manner”.
“I loved the battle lots,” he instructed motogp.com’s After the Flag. “For certain, you recognize if you battle Marc it’s important 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 sturdy 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 sturdy within the entrance of nook 9. So, I used to be saying to myself ‘OK, I will not take a threat in nook eight however I’ll break so laborious in nook 9 to have a bit benefit’.
Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati Group
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“And I knew that if I used to be braking this difficult, he was for certain going to go a bit large. And I simply used this factor to shut the road and be in entrance once more.
“While you battle like this, you set it on the listing which you could have this contact. I believed it was fairly clean 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 aspect. So, it was contact however in a sensible manner.”
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 the intention to minimise a factors loss.
“It is too quickly to start out enthusiastic 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.”
