Bagnaia's Misano MotoGP sprint podium "too important" after Barcelona crash
The championship leader had his right leg run over by KTM's Brad Binder in a horrible accident in last week's Catalan GP. Though he was cleared to ride, Bagnaia struggled with the pain in his leg in Saturday's 13-lap sprint race and only narrowly fended off the KTM duo of wildcard Dani Pedrosa and Brad Binder for third. Bagnaia says his defence of Pedrosa into Turn 1 on the last lap was one of the hardest braking moves he has ever made because it was "too important " to get onto the podium after what happened last week. "He [Pedrosa] was pushing a lot, I was hearing him," Bagnaia, whose points lead has been cut to 45, said. "The braking I did in the first corner on the last lap was one of the hardest for sure, because he was already in front of me and it was too important to restart with a podium from [what happened in] Barcelona. Much more than this was very difficult." Expanding on how he felt physically...