These pictures show double MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo being launched from his Yamaha while lꦿeading Sunday's Valencia season finale (see below for further images).

The✨ dramatic incident occurred as he attempted to lap James Ellison at the midway stage of the wet/dry 30-lap race. Lorenzo got into a tank-slapper, which turned into a highside on corner exit.

ﷺThe #99 walked away sꦯore, but without serious injury.

The Spaniard, who secured his second premier-class title at the previous꧅ Australian round, was on target for his seventh win of the sꦉeason.

That instead went to Championship runner𝓡-up Dani Pedrosa, whom Lorenzo was leading by over four-seconds at the time of his fall.

"I'm happy because we are world champions and that is🐎 the most important thing. Maybe if we had arrived here without the title deci⛄ded it could have been another story and I wouldn't be so happy," said Lorenzo, who was one of the few riders to correctly choose slick tyres on the grid.

"I had a lot of hopes to win today, I chose a reall😼y risky tyre strategy and I was making a really good race. Dani was catching me a little bit, but then I managed to have a four-second lead [after Pedrosa made a mistake].

"Then I came up to the slower riders and I'm not sure what happened, maybe the marshals didn't put up the blue flags quickly enough but I was losing time st⛄uck behind them.

"I was♑ behind Ellison and I thought he saw me, but he stayed on the racing line. I tried to overtake him and made a mistake on the wet tarmac. A big highside."

Lorenzo will return to the Valenc🍬ia circuit on Tuesday for the start of winter testing, alongside 2013 team-mate Valentino Rossi.

"I'm looking forwaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrd to seeing the performance oওf Valentino with Yamaha and Marquez with Honda. It will be interesting," he said.