After being overly cautious while passing soon-to-be champioꦅn Francesco Bagnaia, Suzuki’s 2020 title winner was up to fifth place as the ꦬclosing stages began.

When Mir’s name began jumping 𒀰around the timing screens it was thought 🌳to be simply a transponder issue.

In fact, it was more serious, with his GSX-RR’🍌s corner-by-corner electronic 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 ไcompletely gone,” Mir explained. “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 c💝orners I was without traction control, in others there was too much. So I think it was mixing the 🧔setups of the different corners and it was a big mess.”

Mir admitted there was a heigh🌺tened risk of repeating his huge Austrian highside, rumoured 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 ever🔯ything is spinning so much at the end of the race [anyway], you don't open [the throttle] like an animal. You always control it more.

“But I lost one position for that reason, and I lost a b𓃲it the pace, which was pretty good at that moment. So again, 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 wra🌺pped up the 2020 crown at the same track.

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

“It was a bit of a challenge to overtake him, because his acceleration is reaꦿlly 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 15th in the championship, s🐟o 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 over six-seco♕nds from his final chance to avoid a podium-less 2022 campaign.

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