Jorge Martin title dream ends in crash with Marc Marquez at Valencia MotoGP
Martin's retirement fro🌳m 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 r🍸ider violently flying through 💟the air and landing on his upper-body in the gravel.
Marc & Jorge collide!
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That ends Jorge's World Championship hopes
Pecco is currently in third; behind Binder and Miller - but he'll be our World Champ⛄🍰ion regardless of result.
Martin also slid out of the race. He was applauded into his Pramac box ﷽but emotionally broke down into tears.
Marquez got back to his feet but walked gingerly, with assi🍬stance, to his garage.
Martin's race began aggressively as he flew from si🐭xth to second, behind only Francesco Bagnaia.
But an er𒊎ror, as he got caught in Bagnaia's slipstream, sent him back down to♛ eighth.
Shortly after, his race had ended.
Martin, who won Saturday's sprint to reduce the title deficit to 14 points before Sunday's grand prix, knew that he was always the underdog🐽 to become champion.
He needed to win the Valencia MotoGP and hope Bagnaia finished sixth or lower in 🔜order to walk away as champion.
The⛄ incident that ended Martin's championship dream also ended the Honda care🦋er of Marquez.
Marquez was competing for the final time for Honda b🐽efore joining Gresini Ducati, but his final result ended in the gravel.
James was a sports journalist at Sky ﷽Sports f🌺or a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
