Val🔯entino Rossi and Andrea Dovizioso saw their Dutch MotoGP podium hopes end after a 'bar-to-'bar braking co𝓰ntest into Turn One, on the penultimate lap.

The pair had been holding second and third, behind race winner Marc Marquez, with three laps to go when Rossi passe♔d Dovizioso into the final chicane.

But the Ducati rider got a better slingshot out of the turn and slipstreamed alongside his fe😼llow Italian on the home straight.

The pair were side-by-side as they reached the braking zone, but neither would concede the position and both ran d💛eep into the coꦇrner. 

Rossi - on the outside - was forced off track, while Dovizioso also had to bac💃k off the throttle to make the turn. Rossi rejoined in sixth, w♚hile Dovi lost out to Maverick Vinales and then Alex Rins.

Dovizioso and Rossi - who went on to𒅌 finish fourth and fifth respectively -꧃ agreed the incident was regrettable, but each thought the other rider should have given way.

"With two laps to go I was in a good po💛sition, because I was second and I think I had the potential for the podium but Dovizioso tried to overtake me in the first corner," said Rossi.

"In the first corner I ꦬwas very strong in braking and unfortunately he ꧂arrived in delay, too fast, and I had to go out of the track.

"For me, i♛t was an aggressive overtake. But we saw a lot of those today, a minimum of 25 aggres💜sive overtakes!

"But, for me, it was strategically not very clever. 💙Because I think we both had the potential to arrive on the podium, second and third, and like this we lose a lot and arrive just fourth and fifth.

"So it's a shame, but it's like this."

Told about Rossi's comments, Dovizioso responded:

"At that time, both riders, we would like to ex✨it in front in Turn One.

"But he was outside, so I controlled the brake. He released two times the brake and so I released two times the brake and we went a little 💖bit long [wide]. 

"But I didn'tཧ make some🦩thing crazy, and I stayed on the track.

"For example with Marc and Maverick, they did the same thing but they pushed a bit more and [both] went out of t𝔉he track. 

"So if I put myself in Valentino's position, I ca🦄n understand because he lost for sure some positions.

"But I didn’t make someth🐬ing over the limit and I think hꦰe did a wrong decision. 

"Because when you are on the outside, to release two times the brake, when on the inside of you there is one of the hardest brakers ꧋;- I think it is a bad idea at the end of the race…

"This is what happened. I'm soඣrry for him, but this is the 𒁏reality."

Rossi, the defending event winner, suffered a major scare in the earlier in the race when he hit&n⛄bsp;the back of Dovizioso's race leading team-mate J🦂orge Lorenzo.