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

When Mir’s name began jumping around the timing sc🍰reens it was thought to be simply a transpond♏er issue.

In fact, it was more serious, with his GSX-RR’s corner-by-corner electronic ꦆset-up - covering areas such as power delivery, traction contro▨l and engine braking - also becoming out of sync with the racetrack.

“In the last three laps the electronics of the bike were completely gone,” Mir explained. “For example, in the [fast] first corner, when I was closing the throttl𓆉e, there was a lot of en🍸gine brake [as if it was a slow corner].

“Then in so🤡me 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 repea💧ting his huge Austrian highside, rumoured to have been due to a technical issue and which caused him to miss four races wi♏th ankle injuries.

“That's why it was a bit dangerous,” he said. “But when everything is spinning so much at the end of the race [anyway], you don't open [the thrott♓le] like an ꦅanimal. You always control it more.

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

'I would not want anyone to make crazy manoeuvres'

Reflecting on his tense midꦉ-race Bagnaia pass, Mir recalled his own nerves when he wrapped up the 2020 crown at the same tracღk.

“If I was in his position, I would not want anyone to m🍃ake 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 good, 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 to overtake him [quicklyꦫ] 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 the electᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚronics anyway.”

Eventually finishing 7.7s fr🌳om victory, Mir was also just over six-seconds from his final chance to avoid a podium-less 2022 campaign.

Mir joins Rin🎃s in moving to Honda next season, the pair being🅘 18th and 20th respectively on their RC213V debuts at the Valencia post-race test.