Repsol Honda's Marc Marquez said he 'pushed to the limit' in his🃏 efforts to deny Jorge Lorenzo victory in the MotoGP✱ World Championship finale at Valencia in Spain.

Reports emerged following the race that Valentino Rossi believed both Honda riders, Marquez and Dani Pedrosa, had the pace to defeat Lorenzo on ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚSunday, but the outing world champion said he tried all he could to find a way past without success.

Marquez shadowed Lorenzo throughout the🍌 30-lap race and had closed onto the rear of the Yamaha M1 in the final laps as Pedrosa reeled in both riders after clawing back a deficit ꦇof two seconds.

The 30-year-old managed to pass Marquez briefly on the penultimate lap but ran slightly wide, allowing h𝓡is team-mate back into second place as Lorenzo benefitted from their brief tussle ♈at the front.

Marquez, who finished third in the final standings behind Lorenzo andꦯ Rossi, said he al♔so had to abort a planned attack on the race leader due to a yellow-flag situation.

"During the race I start really focused because I know that Jorge was really strong ☂on the first laps and the first 20 laps it was really difficult to follow him, but I was able to be maximum one second behind him," said Marquez.

"I saw that Dani was far and then when remain six, seven laps, I catch him c🌳ompletely and then I start to think about the other races and I remember in Indianapolis I started to push when remain two or three laps, so I [decided] I will try to do the same.

"Then I was really close and𝐆 when remained four laps I said I will attack, but then there were yellow flags at the place wh🔯ere I was closer because in the acceleration I was losing a lot," he added.

"I say I will wait until the next lap and on the next lap, Dani arrived to overtake🌠 me and I was impressed about this, but he go wide and he was out of the line and I tried to be inside for try to catch Jorge again because in that situation we lose half a second."

Reflecting on the final lap of the race, Marquez said he was disappointed not to end the campaign with a victory and admitted he must improve with Honda in 2016 to challengeဣ for the title.

"On the las🥀t lap I tried to push at the limit and last corner I was close, but not enough for win the race so disappointed not to win the last race but in the end we were on the podඣium so next season we must do better," said the 22-year-old.

"It has been a really difficult season and we did a few mistakes that we must avoid next season. This last race was not easy for this situation and also because during the season I crashed six times, so I say okay, we must finish this race - I cannot crash agai🐻n, so for this reason it was difficult to take a lot of risks.

"In the end, we finis🐲hed too far from the top but we will try next season to fight for th🅷e title again."