These pictures show double MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo being l🌳aunched from his Yamaha while leading Sunday's Valencia season finale (see below for further images).

The dramatic incident occurred as he attempted to lap James Ellison at the midw🧸ay stage of the wet/dry 30-lap race. Lorenzo got into a tank-slapper, which turned into a highside on corner exit.

The #99 🧸walked away sore, but without serious injury.

The Spaniard, who secured his second premier-class title at the previous Australian roun💯d, was on target for his seventh win of the season.

That instead went to Championship runner-up Dani Pedrosa, whom Lorenzo was leading by over🌊 four-seconds at the time of his fall.

"I'm happy because we are world champions and that 🧔is the most important thing. Maybe if we had arrꦯived here without the title decided it could have been another story and I wouldn't be so happy," said Lorenzo, who was one of the few riders to correctly choose slick tyres on the grid.

"I had a lot of hopes to win today, I chose a really risky tyre strategy and I was making a really good race. Dani was catching me a little bit, but then I managed 🌳to have a four-second lead [after Pedrosa made a mistake].

"Then I came up to the slower riders and I'm not sure what happen🤪ed, maybe the marshals didn't put up the blue flags quickly enough but I was losing time stuck behind th💙em.

"I was behind ꦐEllison and I thought he saw me, but he stayed on the racing line. I tried to overtake him and made a mistake on the wet tarmac. A big highsi🅘de."

Lorenzo will return to the Valenci꧟a circuit on Tuesday for the start of winter testing, alongside 2013 team-mate Valentino Rossi.

"I'm looking forward to seeing the perf💃ormance of Valentino with Yamaha and Marquez with Honda. It will be interesting," he said.