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

When Mi🍨r’s name began jumping a꧟round 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 electr♊onic 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 explained. “For example, in the [fast] first co🐼rner, 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 the setups of the different corners and it wa🐎s a big mess.”

Mir admitted there was a heightened 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 everythi🦩ng 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 bit 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 p𒁏ass, Mir rec𝓰alled his own nerves when he wrapped up the 2020 crown at the same track.

“If I was in his position, I would not want an🍌yone to make crazy manoeuvres on me,” he said. “So I lost probably threಌe 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 l🌠ot in the corners, so I was not able to make the corner speed.

“The only way to overtake him [quickly] was with an aggre♏ssive manoeuvre, that didn't make sense. I'm 15th 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 ele🍌ctronics anyway.”

Eventually finishing 7.7s from victory, Mir was also just over six-seconds from his final chan🌊ce to avoid a podium-less 2022 campaign.

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