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 huge and on the cutback into Flip 10 the pair rubbed towards one another.
Bagnaia got here out on prime 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 performed “in a sensible means”.
“I loved the struggle so much,” he instructed motogp.com’s After the Flag. “For certain, you already know once you struggle Marc it’s important to put your elbows up as a result of the struggle is intense.
“Truthfully, it was the one place I used to be in a position to defend as a result of I knew completely that he was very robust in corners 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 arduous 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 certain going to go a bit huge. And I simply used this factor to shut the road and be in entrance once more.
“Whenever you struggle like this, you place it on the checklist which 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 occurring the opposite aspect. So, it was contact however in a sensible 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 to be able to minimise a factors loss.
“It is too quickly to begin eager 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 occasions a bit,” he added.
“So, no, I by no means thought of giving up and taking second place. I am not a man who in this type of second likes to surrender.”