While the top four rider꧅s in the Aragon MotoGP finished in the same order as the opening lap, a fierce fight for fifth raged between Franco Morbidelli and rookie Fermin Aꦐldeguer.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aldeguer had got the better of the Italian for third💜 in the Saturday Sprint, but the VR46 rider prevailed after some fairing 🏅banging during the grand prix.

The GP24 riders initially fought over sixth place, before being promoted one place when Brad Bi✃nder crashed.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Morbidelli led Aldeguer over the line from lap 2 onwards but was forced to launch꧃ numerous counterattacks to stay ahead of the blue machine.

The pair twice made contac🌼t at high speed along the back straight.

“It was a sketchy race,” said Morbidelli. “I 🅘was struggling big time, especially in the fir🌄st half.

“I wasn't having the feeling I was eওxpecting an🧔d I almost crashed three times, two of them big ones, in turn 9 and turn 10.

“So I'm really happy that I was able to bring the bike home, evꦕen more in P5 because at the end I found myself fighting with Fermin.

“It was a reꦉally nice battle. I'm pleased that I could get the better of him.

“It felt similar to the battle with🧔 🎃Marc in Silverstone, the difference was the ending. 

"With Marc, I couldn't beat him. With ♌Fermin, I could, but he was really strong.”

Morbidelli denied that some of the passes between them were overly aggressi🐽ve - “it was just a nice battle” - but did admit contactღ on the straight caused a spike of adrenaline.

“Pure adrenaline was going through my head in that momenꩲt of the race, if you could spill it in a shot [glass], I could make you an adrenaline drink!” he smiled.

Had the cut-throat dirt track battles with VR46 Academy riders atꩵ Valentino Rossi’s ranch helped?

“There is nothing really that can trai🔯n you for a battle at 360km/h, with bikes with 250 horsepower and that weight, until the last lap of the race, with f♕inished tyres.

“There are few thi👍ngs that can help you to train for that.

“For sure, the ranch has its benefits in training, but I think in those moments you really go by instinct. And it depends on human being to h💧uman being.”

While the duel thrꩵilled the watching fans, Morbidelli admitted it probably cost them the chance to challenge Pedro A💞costa for fourth.

“For sure, I lost a lot of time with the battle 🍌and the three big moments I had. We could have got closer to Pedro. But that's the way it is.”

Fermin Aldeguer: “Heavy” fight with Morbidelli

Aldeguer also had no complaints over the intensity🅰 of the battle.

“Yeah, a funny fight. It was a good race. If I’d won the battle, I’d🦩 be even happier, but we didn’t do the best start. I had some spin.

“Then in the first fight with Morbidelli, on the second lap, he touched me and 🐻I wen๊t straight, so I lost a lot of time.

“When I caught ෴Morbidelli again, my front tyre was a little bit destroyed by the graining, and the temperature went up a lot.

“I tried by best to fight, but Morbidelli is ‘heavy’ in a battle, he has a lot mo🌜re experience and he won. But we are a rookie, so it’s okay.

“We took a lot of experience in this b🅘attle, andꩲ I would have signed for a sixth position just eight races ago [at the start of the season].”

Both will be back on track for Monday’s official MotoGP test, although their satellite status means neithe꧂r rider expects to try new parts.