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

When Mir’s name began jumping around the timing scree𒈔ns it was thought to be simpl🍎y a transponder issue.

In fact, it was more serious, with his GSX-RR’s corner-by-corner electronic set-up - covering areas sಌuch as power delivery, traction control and engine brakin⛦g - also becoming out of sync with the racetrack.

“In the last t🔯hree 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 setups of 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 miss four races with ankle injuries.

“That's why it was a bit dangerous,” he said. “But when everything is spinninౠg so much at the end of the race [anyway], you don't open [the throttle] like an animal. You always co♓ntrol it more.

“But I lost one position for that reason, and I lost a bit the pace, which was pretty good at that moment. Soꦰ again, a bit of bad luck. But we managed to finish the [final] race.”

'I would not want anyone to make crazy manoeuvres'

Reflectin💃g on his tense mid-race Bagnaia pass, Mir recalled his own nerves when he wrapped 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 challenge to overtake him, because his acceleration is really gooಞd, 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 to൲ overtake him [quickly] was with an aggressive 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 ꩵthe electronics anyway.”

Eventually finishing 7.7s from victorﷺy, 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 debut♛s at the Valencia post-race test.