These pictures show double MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo being launc🔯hed from his Yamaha while leading Sunday's Valencia season finale (see below f✃or further images).

The dramatic incident occurred as he attempted to lap James Ellison at the midway stage of the wet/dry 30-la🐻p race. Lorenzo got into a tank-slapper, which turned into a highside on corner exit.

The #99 walked away sore, but without🥂 serious injury.

The Spaniard, who sec🅠ured his 🎐second premier-class title at the previous Australian round, was on target for his seventh win of the season.

That ins💜tead went to Championship runner-up Dani Pedrosa, whom Lorenzo was ꦉleading by over four-seconds at the time of his fall.

"I'm happy because we are world champions and that is the most important thing. Maybe if we had arrived here ♌without the title decided it could 🍬have been another story and I wouldn't be so happy," said Lorenzo, who was one of the few riders to correctly choose slick tyres on the grid.

"I had a lot ofꦐ hopes to win today, I chose a really risky tyre strategy and I was making a really good race. Dani was catching me a little bit, but then I managed to have a four-second lead [after Pedrosa made a mistake].

"Then I came up to the slower riders and I'm not sure what happened, maybe the marshals didn't pu༺t up the blue flags quickly enough but I was 𓃲losing time stuck behind them.

"I was behind Ellison and I thought hꦦe saw me, but he stayed on t🃏he racing line. I tried to overtake him and made a mistake on the wet tarmac. A big highside."

Lorenzo will return to the Valencia circuit on Tuesday for the sta🦹rt of winter testing, alongside 2013 team-mate Valentino Ros🍨si.

"I'm looking forward to seeing the performance of Valentino with Yamaha and Marquez with Honda. It will be intereꦚsting," he said.