It’s hard to talk about the weekend in Indonesia after Sunday’s crash.
Because up until that moment, everything had gone really well.
I had an incredible pace that took me to pole position and a win in Saturday’s Sprint.

Despite a bad start that dropped me back to P8, I fought my way up and passed Fermín (Aldeguer) on the final lap — in what was probably the best Sprint of the season.

On Sunday, I was fired up.
I had the pace to fight for the win.
But I got off to a poor start and immediately got stuck in the pack.
We reached Sector 2 — the one where I’m usually really strong…
Maybe too strong, because suddenly I found Marc’s (Marquez) rear wheel in front of me — and I hit him.

We both ran off the track.
He went down immediately, I crashed shortly after.

It was a nasty fall.
I went to check on him right away and realized something was broken.
I apologized — it was my mistake.
These are things that can happen in racing… unfortunately, this time it happened to me.

It was definitely a big blow, not just mentally, but physically too — a hit that added to the ones I took back in the Japan Sprint.

Now I’ve got two weeks to recover before Phillip Island.
The fight for third in the championship is still wide open, and I know that if I can shake off these knocks, I’ll be really competitive again.

And for sure, the fire to bounce back — learning from this episode and growing from it — is 100% there.

On to the next one.