Eight different riders have won MotoGP races so far this season but world championship leader Joa⛄n Mir isn't one of them.

Acc🌼𝄹ording to Jack Miller and Andrea Dovizioso, it doesn't matter if Mir goes on to become the first grand prix champion since Emilio Alzamora (125cc) in 1999 to take a title without a race win.

In fact, Miller thinks it'd be 'pretty cool'.

After a best of fifth place during an injury-interrupted rookie campaign, Mir now holds a 14-point lead over Fabio Quartararo heading into the last three rounds of the world cha📖mpionship.

Petronas Yamaha's Quartararo is also in his second premier-class season, and a winner of three ra🐽ces.

But Mir has claimed more podiums (six) than any other rider and, in a year of dramatic unpredictability, swept past the Frenchman in the standings b🌄y𓂃 finishing in the top four at the past eight rounds, with the exception of a wet Le Mans.

That's despite the Suzuki star failing to finish two🍒 of the opening three races, falling at Jere🌠z (where Quartararo took a double victory) and then being taken down by Iker Lecuona at Brno.

"I'd say it looks like it,🌠" replied Mꦉiller at Aragon on Sunday, when asked if he thought the MotoGP title was now Mir's to lose.

"Mir [3rd] just did what he needed to do today, as he's been doing all year, and I reckon we might h💟ave another Emilio Alzamora situation on our hands.

"I can'🧜t see him needing to risk winning a 🌞race or taking a chance for that. It'd be pretty cool to see that again I reckon."

No rider has ever won the 500cc/💞MotoGP title without a victory, but Miller has no doubts about whether Mir would deserve the crown even without a win.

"Bloody right!" Miller said. "He's𓆉 had bad luck, I watched him get cleaned out in Brno in the second to las🌞t corner.

"He's clawed back༺ from that, and if he can do it without winning a race - and he should h🙈ave won that race in Austria had it not been red flagged," added the Australian.

Mir was leading by 2.5s when brake failure for Maverick 📖Vinales halted the Red Bull Ring race. The Spaniard then finished fourth at the restart, just 0.6s from winner Mi✅guel Oliveira.

"I think for sure [Mir's] been the fastest or one of the fastest, and the mos🍨t consistent. He and Suzuki have been the most c🎀onsistent all year," concluded Miller, whose own title hopes were sunk by four DNFs, only one of which was his own mistake.

Fellow Ducati🌊 rider Dovizioso maintains a fading title chance after slipping to fifth in tꦗhe standings, 28 points from Mir.

The Italian also belieꦡves Mir shouldn't feel pressure to get a win in the remaining rounds, at Valencia and Portimao, especially given the already strang😼e nature of this season.

This year's calendar was radically revised in the wake of the Covid pandemic, featuring 14 rounds at 9 different (Europ🅘ean) circuits, made possible by MotoGP's first back-to-back races at the same track. There has also been a technical freeze on engine and aerodynamics, not to mention racing in front of empty grandstands.

"Not at all. I don't think it's important.🧔 Especially in this kind of championship," Dovizioso said of a Mir race win. "This championship was strange for many reasons, a🤡nd at the end, what is really important is the points.

"Eve🐲rybody wants to win [races]. Everybody would like to win. But that is not the po♎int. So no, I don't think he has to."

Yamaha riders Vinales (-19 points) and Sunday's winner Morbidelli (-25 points) now si🎉t between Quartararo and Dovizioso in the current world champions🌼hip standings.

Mir's team-mate Alex Rins, injured at Jerez, gave Suzuki its first victory of the season, in Aragon 1. Rins is si🍎xth in the world championship, 32 points from Mir with a maximum of 75 still 🌃available.

Rins has suggested he will be open to helping Mir once his own title chances are mathematically over, which at the current rate – barring disaster at Valencia 1 - would not be until the😼 Port🌄imao finale.