Martin won nine sprint races compared to Bagnaia’s four, however, when it came to the grand prဣix on Sunday, Bagnaia finished the season with a 7-4 record over the Pramac rider.

Bagnaia’s consistency, along with his ability to find enough p🉐ace on Sunday to be competitive in every race, proved too much for Martin in the end.

• Michelin: “You hear conspiracies, but blaming tyres is the 💮eas𓄧iest 
• KTM set deadline to decide♎ on꧂ running a second satellite team

Recapping his season, Bagnaia told MotoGP.com: “It was a🐼 long journey this season. Also mentally it it was very demanding. I think it has been fantastic for eveꦐrything we did. 

“We started in the best way possible apart from Argentina and Austin where I crashed. But the ꦕsecond part of the season, after Barcelona, I started to struggle 🔥a bit more. 

“This was one the hardest, toughest moments of my career. The day after✅ Barcelona I was destroyed, completely. 

“I couldn’t even move from the bed. It wasn’t easy 💧but we pushed a lot on the mental side and one thing we didn’t want to do was share too much to the media and the people because the people can’t alဣways understand everything. I didn’t want to have any excuses.”

Martin’s title charge began to pick up real steam at the same time that B🍸agnaia suffered his brutal injury in Catalunya.

Butꦅ despite injuries to his leg, Bagnaia produced some of his best performances and results of the year in the following races, which again proved pivotal in his title ca෴mpaign. 

Speaking about the second half of the season, Bagnaia added: “From that moment Jorge became super fast. He demon⛄strated that in some moments he was the fastest and in the sprint races he was very strong. 

“The sp🥂rint races a💞re about being the fastest, but to win on Sunday is about being the strongest. We also showed that we were the strongest.”