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

Bagnaia’s consistency, along w𝕴ith his ability to find enough pace on Sunday to be competitive in every race, proved too much for Marti⛎n in the end.

• Michelin: “You hear꧙ conspiracies, but blaming tyres is t♍he easiest 
• 🔯KTM set deadline to decide on running a second satꦇellite 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 everything we did.&nb♒sp;

“We started in the best way possible apart from Argentina and Austin where I crashed. But ℱthe second 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 destroye𝓀d, 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 th🍸e people because the people can’t always understand everything. I didn’t want toꦜ have any excuses.”

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

But despite injuries to his leg,𒁃 Bagnaia produced some of his best performances and results of the year in the following races, which again proved pivotal in 💯his title campaign. 

Speaking about the second half of the seas𝐆on, Bagnaia added: “From that moment Jorge became super fast. He demonstrated that in some moments he was the fastest and in the sprint races𝕴 he was very strong. 

“The sprint races are about being the fastest, but to win on😼 Sunday is ab🤪out being the strongest. We also showed that we were the strongest.”