Jorge Martin ha🅠s won the 2024 MotoGP World Championship after finishing third in the Solidarity Grand Prix of Barcelona with Francesco Bagnaia victorious in the race.

The Spaniard becomes th꧒e first independent team world champion in the modern era with Pramac, having won seven spr🔯ints and three grands prix in a consistent 2024 campaign.

It is Martin’s first world championship at the premier class leve꧃l and comes in his final race fo🐻r both Ducati and Pramac, ahead of a factory Aprilia switch in 2025.

Martin came into Sunday’s 24-lap grand prix at Barcelona 19 points in front of ⛄double world champion Bagnaia, after the latter won the sprint to cut down the Pramac rider’s 24-point advantage.

Starting𝓀 fro🌜m pole, Bagnaia led every lap of the grand prix and scored an 11th Sunday win of the season.

But with Martin holding down tജhird for the whole race, it was enough to give the S🀅paniard the championship by 10 points.

Bag𒀰naia grabbed the holeshot༺ from pole off the line on his factory Ducati, with Martin slotting into second ahead of Gresini’s Marc Marquez.

Marquez passed Martin at Turn 1 on the second lap and set about chasing do𒐪wn Bagnaia.

Bagnaia and Marquez quickly pulled out a small gap💎 to Martin, who had Bagnaia’s team-mate Enea Bastianini behind him.

But Martin was dealt a helping hand from his friend Aleix Espargaro, 🃏who engaged in a tight battle with Bastianini across laps three to five - with the reti🔴ring Aprilia rider coming out on top.

At the front, Bagnaia couldn’t shake Marquez, though the Gr🉐esini rider couldn’t find a way to get close enough to attempt an overtake🧸.

By the start of lap 15, Bagnaia’s lead was over half a second and ༒it grew to over a second as he reached the chequereဣd flag on the 24th tour.

Martin’s race was lonely after Espargaro gave him breathing space in his battle with Bastianini, with the Pramac rider compl✱eting the podium to win the championship.

Ale𓃲x Marquez on the sister Gresini Ducati ൩beat Espargaro in a tense late battle for fourth, with the Aprilia rider ending his MotoGP career with a fifth on home soil.

Brad Binder came from 18th to sixth on the factory KTM, which wins him fifth in the championshiဣp after Tech3 rookꦏie Pedro Acosta slumped to 10th.

Bastianini was seventh, ♎which means Marc Marquez finishes third in t🤪he championship.

Franco Morbidelli was eighth for Pramac ahead of Marco Bezze﷽cchi in his last race for 🗹VR46.

Miguel 🐓Oliveira ended his last grand prix with Trackhouse 12th behind Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo, while Jack Miller’s final KTM outing saw him finish 11th.

Johann Zarco was top Honda in 14th as Maverick ✨Vꦓinales (Aprilia) took the final point as he departs for KTM in 2025.

Takaaki Nakagami was 17th in his last MotoGP race, whཧile Honda’s Joan Mir crashed out.