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 Mir’s name began j♚umping around the timing screens it was thought to be simply a transpo🍸nder issue.

In fact, i🦋t was more serious, with his GSX-RR’s corner-by-corner elecཧtronic set-up - covering areas such as power delivery, traction control and engine braking - also becoming out of sync with the racetrack.

“In t✅he last༒ three laps the electronics of the bike were completely 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 corners I was without traction control, in others there was too much. So I think it was mixing the set🅺ups 𒉰of the different corners and it was 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 mi༒ss four races with ankle injuries.

“That's why it waꦛs a bit dangerous,” he said. “But when everything is spinning so much at the end of the race [anyway], you don't open [the throttl🍎e] like an animal. You always control it more.

“But I lost one position for that reason, and 𝓰I lost a bit the pace, which was pretty good at that moment. So again, a bit of bad luck. But wꦚe 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 said. “So I lost probably three or four laps.

“It was a bit of a chall💯enge to overtake him, because his acceleration is really 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 man𝓀oeuvre, that didn't make sense. I'm 15th in the championship, so it didn't matter if I𝔉 lost three seconds.

“Maybe I would have been cl🍌oser to the top guys, ꧋but at the end I had the problem with the electronics anyway.”

Eventuall꧂y finishing 7.7s from victory, Mir was also just over six-seconds from his final chance to avoid a podium-less 2022 campaign.

Mir joins Rins in moving to Honda next season, the pair being 18th and 20th respectively on their RC213V debuts at the Vale💝ncia post-race test.