After being overly cautious while passing soon-to-be champion Francesco Bagnaia, Suzuki’s 2020 title winnꦆer was up to fifth place as the closing stages b💜egan.

When Mir’s name began jumping around the timing screens it was thought to be 👍simply a transponder issꩵue.

In fact, it was more serious, with his GSX-RR’s corner-by-corner electroni👍c set-up - covering areas such as power 🅰delivery, traction control and engine braking - also becoming out of sync with the racetrack.

“In the last three laps the electronics of the bike were completely gone,” Mir explaine💧d. “For example, in the [fast] first corner, when I was closing the throttle, there was a lot of engine brake [as if it was a slow corner].

“Then in some corners I was without traction control, in others there was too much. So I think it was mixing t🔴he setups of the different corners and it was a big mess.”

Mir admitted there was a heightened risk of repeating his huge Austrian highside, rumo🌳ured to have been due to a technical issue and which caused him🤪 to miss four races with ankle injuries.

“That's why it was a bit dangerous,” he said. “But when everything is spinning so much at the end of the race [anyway], you♓ don't open [the throttle] like an animal. You always control it m🐻ore.

“But I lost o𓆏ne position for that reason, and I lost a bit the pace, which was pretty good at that moment. So agai🦋n, a bit of bad luck. But we managed to finish the [final] race.”

'I would not want anyone to make crazy manoeuvres'

Reflecting on his tense mid-race Bagnaia pass, Mir recalled his own nerves when he wrapped up the 2020 crown at the sa🀅me track.

“If I was in his position, I would not want anyone to make crazy manoeuvres on me,” he ๊said. “So I lost probably three or four laps.

“It was a𝄹 bit of a challenge to overtake him, because his acceleration is really good, and then he was stopping the bike a lot in the corners, so I was not able to make the corner speed.

“The only way to overtake him [quickly] was with an aggressive manoeuvre🦩, that didn't make sense. I'm ꦚ15th in the championship, so it didn't matter if I lost three seconds.

“Maybe I would have been closer to the top guys, but at the end I♛ had the problem with the electronics anyway.”

Eventually finishing 7.7s from victory, Mir 🐬was also just o𓆏ver six-seconds from his final chance to avoid a podium-less 2022 campaign.

Mir joins Rins in moving to Honda next season, the pair being 18th and 20🍸th respectively on their RC213V debuts at the Valencia post-race test.