The Yamaha rider made contact with Gresini Ducati’s Alex Marquez at Turn 2 on the first lap of the sprint race on Saturday.
The contact resulted in both crashing, with VR46 Ducati’s Marco Bezzecchi also caught up in it as he struck Morbidelli’s errant Yamaha.
The sprint was red-flagged after this and all riders were able to restart, while the incident has been placed under investigation by the stewards.
Morbidelli came close to being struck by oncoming riders behind and praised LCR Honda’s Nakagami’s “reflexes” for sparing the Italian from a nastier incident.
“We were involved in the crash in Turn 2,” Morbidelli began.
“I’m very happy that nothing serious happened because I remained in the middle of the track. Actually I want to thank Taka especially for his reflexes in avoiding me.
“I think he deserves a nice present. Now I will sort out a nice present to give him, because he did the maximum to avoid me and he just [barely] hit me, but it could have been much worse.”
Source: Autosport