Fabio Quartararo wasn’t the only rider to str🌄uggle with a lack of fuel at the end of Sunday’s Japanese MotoGP.

But while the Yamaha rider lamented the lack of warning before his bike spluttered in the last few corners, Aprilia’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aleix Espargaro was at least aware he was in trouble.

Sta🍬rting 15th, Espargaro gained early ground to eighth but couldn’t keep the VR46 Ducatis at bay.

A lack of rear grip led to🅘 excessive wheelspin, which burned through his fuel at the notoriously ‘thirsty’ track.

“One of the most dif൲ficult races of the last three seasons. We had no grip at all,” Espargaro said.

“I was sliding all the way, spinning. I made it to the end just for a couple of corners, because I had no fu𝕴el already.”

“The last five or six laps, I star🅰ted to have the [low fuel] alarms,” Esparga🦩ro explained.

“I went to [engine] map 2, then map 3, and the📖n the bike started to have no power even on map 3.

“I knew it, I saw from the beginning of the race that I was over the limitꦿ riding the bike, spinning, spinning, spinning.

“I'm completely destroyed physically! Because the bi♊ke had no grip at all. So I had to fight a lot, and then the [fuel] consumption is higher than expected.

“We made it. I think half a lap more and my bike stꦉops.”

Team-mate Maverick Vinales cra♔shed out of eleventh place🍌 at mid-distance.

Espargaro is tied with VR46's Fabio di Giannanto♐nio for tenth in the world championship, three places behind Vinales.

Outscored by KTM at the last two rounds, Aprilia is now 20 points behind the Austrian ꦓmanufacture💟r in the fight for runner-up behind Ducati in the constructors’ standings.