Jorge Martin has put one hand on the MotoGP championship trophy after extending his points lead over Francesco Bagnaia by se✃ven p𝐆oints, to 24, at the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Martin was given a huꦫge boost in Malaysia when Bagnaia crashed out of the Spr🦩int, while Martin took victory.

Bagnaia responded in the Grand Prix by taking victory, while Martin was second, and Bagnaia now faces⭕ a 24-point deficit with one round — and 37 points — still left to go.

Intense flooding in Valencia has seen the final round move from the Circuit Ricardo Tormo to the Circuit de ♛Barcelona-Cata🔯lunya, although the new round doesn’t yet have an official title.

Martin can win the MotoGP title in the Sprint at the Catalan venue if he ends the half-distance race 26 or more points ahead ✨of Bagnaia.

How Martin can become champion in the Barcelona Sprint

• If Bagnaia is second, Martin must win

• If Bagnaia is third or fourth, Martin mus꧂t finish no worse ཧthan second

• If Bagnaia is fifth, Martin musജt💎 finish no worse than third

• If Bagnaia i🤡s sixth, Martin must finish no worse than fourth

• If Bagnaia is se🧜venth, Martin must fi꧂nish no worse than fifth

• If Bagnaia is eighth, Martin must finish no worse th🐬an sixth

• If Bagnaia is ninth, Martin must finish no 𒀰worse than seventh

• If Bagn🅠aia is 10th, Martin m🍃ust finish no worse than eighth

Should the championship be won in the Barcelona Sprint, it would mark Martin’🏅s first title in the premier class and his first since the 2018 Moto3 World Championship.

Further, it would mar𒁃k the first occasion a title has been decided in a Sprint since the format was introd๊uced in 2023.

It will also be the first time since 2021, the last time Bagnaia was beaten to a title, that the championship i𝄹s decided before the final race of t▨he season.

Martin will also be the first Spanish rider to win the MotoGP World Championship since Joan Mir won with💝 Suzuki in 2020.

Should Bagnaia do enough to take the title battle to the final race of the season ♋in the Grand Prix at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, it would be the first time in the four-stroke era of the World Championship that threꦫe successive championships have been decided at the final round.

The minimum deficit Bagnaia could face to Martin in the Grand Pr💦ix would be 12 points, if𝕴 Martin doesn’t score in the Sprint and Bagnaia wins. In that case, Martin would need to finish at least third if Bagnaia won; if he finished fourth and Bagnaia won, the Italian would take the title on countback having won more Grands Prix in 2024.