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No pressure for me. I just have to turn up and behave myself!

I'm more nervous for the race than the wedding!

The forecast is unstable. In the wet, everything is open.

It is less physically demanding.

The grip of the track, the amount of water... we will see.

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It was a really positive weekend for me and the team. It was important to have a solid weekend for motivation, for good news inside the garage.

I finished the race in a good way. Of course I was quite careful, especially due to my condition and the soft rear tyre.

I got kilometres which is the most important thing.

In Motegi in the race, I wasn't able to attack on the last lap because I felt pain which meant I lost power and concentration. 

Motegi was the first time that on the last lap I was able to keep pushing.

It's true that I had a lack of power but this is normal.

In Japan the weather helped. It didn't stress so much the body. I felt this.

During this week, I took more time than I expected to recover!

On Tuesday my arm was completely stiff. Today I feel better. Tomorrow will not be a problem.

I did a full weekend on dry on aluminium and on wet on carbon. Here, we will do the same strategy.

In future we need to try again. 

We will try, if we have time, a few big things to understand the concept. It is not the best thing to achieve the best result. But I am here to work for next season.

Thailand - I like it. Really good memories from 2018 and 2019. 

This year we are not in the same situation. We will not be on the last lap fighting for the victory.

We are slowly starting to get back into the direction that we need. This is my first time here on the MotoGP bike.

The weather looks sketchy to say the least. If we get dry track time we can take advantage.

We need to keep the ball rolling. 

Things are so tight in MotoGP. Even qualifying 9th-12th you lose 2-3s on the first 2-3 laps. Even with good rhythm you don't make it up.

We have done something to make us more competitive.

[My win] has sunk in. I watched it back in disbelief. I've never ridden like that before. Amazing to have that emotion.

I'm ready to do it all over again.

We're in for another dodgy weekend.

Going back to 2019, apart from turning the bike off on the grid, it was a good weekend. I've always had reasonable pace here. It feels good to be back.

Buriram is not the most technical track. With the Ducati, we'll be strong no matter the conditions.

I am not close to Fabio - 49 points behind. I have to push in every session, to do the best possible in every race.

After, we will see where we are in the last race.

Last weekend was difficult. I made a mistake on the Friday, then the qualifying wasn't easy and I crashed.

The conditions here are similar to Saturday at Motegi.

Now qualifying is very important. The bikes areso close, very similar.

I was quite sad, not angry, about what happened on Sunday.

I went to Tokyo, had dinner with my team, I love every single person, and they were more down than me! I am the leader. I said: 'Head up'.

I will try to recover points here.

We used that mistake to reanalyse everything, to try to improve. It was not as simple as it looked, the problem.

It was a human mistake. It can happen. 

I was upset, not just for the mistake, but for how the race went. It was shocking that they were fighting for eighth place.

25 points is not that much. The level is very high. If the leader has a bad day he can finish out of the top 10.

I am fully positive.

I hope we can ride on dry but, if it's wet, I was fast in Japan.

I am still thinking and analysing today.

We had to understand why I was struggling so much with acceleration. I got stuck behind Pol, and it was impossible to overtake.

Maybe this week we have found something that will help. It was strange.

On wet I was struggling so much, wheras in the past I was competitive.

I wasn't able to push because I was behind someone who was braking less.

The crash? I was trying to be in front of Fabio for just one point more. But I was too ambitious in that moment. I was trying to overtake from so far.

After I didn't pass I tried to not touch Fabio.

There is just one corner on the straight. Sector 3 is our weakness - in 2019 we lost a lot of time to Fabio.

Japan was frustrating, I couldn't overtake. We were stuck.

I can make the time everywhere! I have to do it. Especially in the braking zone, we are strong, with the new chassis.

In the wet? Let's see. In Motegi I was too aggressive and it wasn't working. In the wet you need to be smooth.

There is nothing I can do. We have the same bike as the beginning of the year. We have a new chassis but it's not a massive change.

Next year will be more fun with more engine performance. There will be evolution. Next year we will have more facilities.

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This is a new track for me with MotoGP.

We had a wet weekend in Japan. We will see, because it is changing a lot. It isn’t 100 percent sure.

In the wet it depends on the feeling you have. But I feel good in the wet.

I am happy to be in Thailand, like I was in Japan, because I missed them in 2019. I remember the track from 2018, I felt good in the test and the race.

It has been raining a lot so maybe the weekend will be wet - that can be an advantage for me. It is a condition where I can make a difference.

If I have the opportunity I will try to catch it.

In case of dry conditions, we will change a few things on the bike to have a better feeling.

Japan was a good race - good performance but two or three mistakes which I paid for.

In the dry I hope for a better feeling here, and to be competitive.

I was comfortable behind Vinales. But when you want to overtake you have to be so close. I went wide two times. Two mistakes, plus a third, I lost six positions and this is the difficult point of the race.

I must improve this area and be more in control.

At the moment I am not fast enough to lead races. I need to be better.

Our wet set-up is hard to say. Here, if it’s wet then it’s warm which will make the tyres work better. We need to adapt. The level of water on track makes a big difference. It is hard to say if you have a clear set-up in the rain because the level of the water can change a lot.

This is a track that I like. I rode here with Moto3 and I was fast. With MotoGP? I don’t know but I hope to be fast.

I want to make a step with my riding to be faster this weekend.

Rain is good but, in MotoGP, everybody is too fast in the rain! It is complicated.

I like rain, I like mixed conditions.

The problem for me is when it is raining but the race is dry.

In the wet, it is about feeling and confidence. I have a good base in the wet.

The tyres are fantastic, a big step up from Moto2 tyres.

On Sunday night they called me! They asked me. 

I’m happy to be here because, for the past two years, I’ve had no races.

I will focus on my riding style. My first time at the track on a MotoGP bike, I have to learn. I must focus on my riding with Taka’s bike.

I know the track from Moto2. I like this track. I need to ride the MotoGP bike more because when I am testing, I ride alone.

Normally when I test and the raindrops come, we stop testing!

I hope not [it will not rain] but it looks like yes!

These things are good for my experience.

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The Thailand MotoGP is September 30-October 2 and will offer Fabio Quartararo the chance to solidify his lead at the summit of the 2022 standings which currently stands at 18 points.

Francesco Bagnaia, who has crashed five times this season, is second but has a race against time to overhaul Quartararo.

Danilo Petrucci makes his MotoGP return this weekend for Suzuki, replacing the injured Joan Mir.

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