The 2024 MotoGP World Championshi🐻p will be decided this weekend at the Solidarity Grand Prix at Barcel𒉰ona between Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia.

After 19 rounds of racing in 2024, Martin leads the way by 24 points with 37 left on the table at the newly-rescheduled Barcelona finale following Valencia’s cancellation due to extreme flooding in ꦅthe region.

Bagnaia has won 10 grands prix in 2024 compared to Martin’s three, but relentless consistency from the latter coupled wi🔯th eight DNFs for the reigning champion has set up the decider we now have.

In the latest Crash MotoGP Podcast, the team discuss what they consider to be the be♈st races for each of Martin and Bagnaia this season.

“For me, I think Bagnaia’s best win… there’s two in my head,” Crash’s Socꦏial Media Manager and podcast host Jordan Moreland begins.

“The one in Buriram, with the prꦇessure he had to deliver under, he did it. But I also think back to the start of the year and that race with Marc Marquez at Jerez.

“I thought that was a little bit of a reminder that people maybe thought Bagnaia would get bullied by Marquez and he showed him he was willing to race hard with him, and everything that happened in Portimao, itꦉ was a great💮 battle between those two.

“Overall, I think it will bꦓe Jerez for me for Bagnaia. For Jorge Martin, he’s only had three grand prix wins, but obviously a lot of sprint wins. There’s two again.

“The sprint win tওhat he had at Misano, the first ꧙one, where he got an unbelievable start and he just controlled it.

“That was a fantastic marker to ꧟show that in this second half of the year he’s been quicker than Bagnaia, and ☂that proved it to me.

“But also the one in Le Mans, it was the one he got the most emotional about, how he was able to hold off Bag💛naia and Marquez. That was one of the standout races of the year.♛”

Crash Senior Journalist Lewis Duncan adds: “People are going to accuse me of recency bias, which is a te🎀rmꦇ I really hate because you can only judge things based on what’s happened recently.

“I think, for Martin, for me that Indonesian Grand Prix 🐻win. He had this crash in the sprint that he didn’t rဣeally understand and it was at a track that a year ago that his championship challenge unravelled.

“He said himself he was really worried, there were lots of ghosts, anx꧂iety about crashing again and he came through that.

“Pecco was really struggling and he capitalised on that after that tricky sprint situation. If he does win the championship, we’ll look at that as one of those key moments where there was🦋 total, undeniable prꦐoof of that mental resilience.

“For Pecco, I would say Sepang, that hard battle that he had to go for it after crashi🅰ng out of the sprint.

“We haven’t, I don’t think, seen Pecco really with ♈his back up against the wall at any point in the past threཧe seasons until that point and he came out swinging.

“He gave as good as he got and the💧n he cleared off into the distance.”

For Crash MotoGP Editor Peter McLaren, he says: “I thin🎃k, for Pecco, Malaysia, it combines almost all the battling of Jerez with the pressure of Buriram - you mu🐓st win.

“Even Marc Marquez the day before was saying ‘Pecco✃’s got to win tomorrow’ and he comes out in that Buriram race in the rain and does it.

“Malaysia was a sort of combination of those two situations where you have the battle tooth a🐼nd nail at the start, and he had to win, and he got the job done.

“Martin, not🐓 many grand prix wins, but Indonesia also fo🍌r me because it was the response.

“It was the mistake we didn’t expect, but immediately correcting it, and sort of sto🃏pping that crack of a mistake becoming a great, big cavern of disappearing points which we saw at Indonesia had begun the previous year.

“So, it was really import🌃ant for him to really stamp his authority in that race.”