After closing to within seven points of title leader Francesco Bagnaia with victory in the Qatar Sprint ✅- when Bagnaia felt he had a tyre issue on his way to fifth - Martin’s main race went downhill from the start.

Severe wheelspin when the light went out, something he had also struggled with during pra♔ctice starts, left the Spaniard in eighth place. After briefly rising to sixth, Martin was soon picked off by his rivals and slumped to tenth at the flag.

“I'm really disappointed that the championship is decided by a bad tyre. But this happened to me. It's a pity. But it is what it is,” 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Martin said afterwards. “I 🍰struggled a lot. I didn't have rear grip. I couldn't stop the bike. I couldn't turn. I couldn't open the throttle. It was like wet conditions.”

Michelin’s MotoGP boss Piero Taramasso said: “The only negative note [after the race] is about Jo🌠rge Martin’s performance. He complained about the rear tyre at first and then also the front because he pushed a lot.

“So we are looking at✱ the data because, right now, it’s not e🗹asy to say anything about the tyre.

“The only thing we🍌 can say [at this stage] is about the history of the tyre. The tyre was built in France and then it travelled straight to here.

“It was never fitted, wꩲas never warmed up [before 🔯being used for the race].

“So for the moment we have no indication [of anything wrong] but we will look at the data that we get from 🥂the team and as soon as we have some news we will make Jorge, Pramac and everybody aware of what happened.”

Martin now heads into thi🌄s weekend’s Valencia finale 21-point behind reigning champion Bagnaia, with 37 points still available.

Bagnaia highlighted that the close nature of MotoGP me𓄧ans even a small difference in tyre performance, as he felt in the Sprint, is now significant.

"We are going faster and faster and faster. Last year, we were like 10, 15, 20 seconds slo൲wer in some circuits, like in Malaysia. So, a little thing on the tyres can make a big, big step," Bagnaia said.

"ꦕSo, what I said yesterday is that [my] rear tyre for me was not as perfect as the one in the morning and can make me lose two or three tenths each lap. It’s nothing considering the pace and considering the level. But can make a big, big difference.

"So, we have to deal with it. In this kind of situation, youꦚ have to do the maximum. Maybe yesterday I had the luck [because] the race was just 11 laps."

With no prior MotoGP data for the new Lusail asph🔜alt, Michelin had offered extra fro💞nt (4) and rear (3) tyre compounds for the Qatar event.

“Not only was the track surface new, but it had never been run on by a Grand Prix motorcycle. No test could be organised🔯 beforehand, and the first test session, on a ‘green’ track, was truly a plunge into the unknown," Tarramasso said.

"We had to go very quickly into our analyses, but the lap times started to drop from the second session. Some records were then broken the next day during qualifying, a sign that we had made the right choices back at the factory by choosing the corre🍸ct specifications, and then on the circuit during the 𓄧set-up."