Jorge Martin title dream ends in crash with Marc Marquez at Valencia MotoGP

Jorge Martin's championship hope ended as he clattered into Marc Marquez, bring both of their races to a conclusion, at the Valencia MotoGP.
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Martin's ret♕irement from the race meant he can no longer usurp Francesco Bagnaia at the summit of the MotoGP standings.

A desparate Martin clipped the back of Marquez, and sent the Honda rider violently flying through the air and landing on his⛦ upper-body in the gravel🍷.

Martin also slid out of the race. He 𝓰was applauded into his Pramac box but emotionally broke🔯 down into tears.

Marquez got ♋back to his feet b🎃ut walked gingerly, with assistance, to his garage.

Martin's race began𒀰 aggressively as he flew from sixth to꧒ second, behind only Francesco Bagnaia.

But an error, as🔯 he got caught in Bagnaia's slipstream, sent him back down🎐 to eighth.

Shortly after, his race had ended.

M🐷artin, who won Saturday's sprint to reduce the title deficit to 14 points before Sunday's grand prꦑix, knew that he was always the underdog to become champion.

He needed to win the Valencꦜia MotoGP and h🍌ope Bagnaia finished sixth or lower in order to walk away as champion.

The incident that ended Martin's 𓆉championship dream also ended the Honda career of Marquez.

Marquez was competing for ꩵthe final time for Honda beꦰfore joining Gresini Ducati, but his final result ended in the gravel.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade cove🍎ring everything from American sports, to football, to F1.

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