“Anyway, thank you to my team because we are really working hard to be in the top group, for example in Buriram race we are fighting really well in front of Franco,” explained the Yamaha rider, who admitted that he thought his Honda counterpart was further behind him: “But this time I thought Franco was 14 or something like this and I was 10, maybe we can gain something like this, gain some points, but we gain just one point in front of him but its ok. At least we were in front of him, we keep pushing and taking the challenge to him.”