Downbeat Joan Mir: “I don’t know if I can do another year like this”

“It is difficult to say if I want to stay or not when you don’t see ⛦the performance"

Joan Mir
Joan Mir

Joan Mir has delivered a detailed explanation on how he will dec🌠ide w💮hether to stay at Honda, or to quit.

Mir is into his second, and final, year of his Honda con🉐tract but his bike looks worse than ever.

He admitted ahead of this weekend’s Catalunya MotoGP that he is assessing hꦇis 🅘team’s plans for improvement before deciding whether to seek a new employer in 2025.

“In terms of what I want to do in the future? Honestly, I don’t know,” Mir said in Baꦫrcelona.

“It is difficult to say if I want to stay or not when you don🔜’t see the performance.

“I’ve been here for one year and we are in the same situation as last year, if not a bit worse, in terms of biꦆke performance.

“For 🍌me now, the most important thing is to understand when we will be competitive. When we will get good performances, 𒈔when we will get close to the top guys.

“When I understand thatꦿ, I will be able to decide.

“Now, I don’t know if I can ওdo another year like this…

“It would be very hard.”

But, the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2025 MotoGP rider line-up is already taking shape and some coveted bikes are being snapped up,⛦ Mir was told.

Delaying his 💝decision could cost him the chance to snare a better machine elsewhe෴re.

“It’s a risk that we should probably take,” he replieꦫd.

“It is true that the market moves very fast.”

Honda underwent a private test at Mugello in the past fortnight, ahead of the MotoGP round at the ꦚsame circuit next week.

Mir insists that any new parts he saw i൲n Mugello will not directly influence his decision of whether to stay at Honda.

“This doesn’t change at all,” he said. “As a rider you always give 100%, you give good i🌼nformation.

“The year is very long. A small thing can co꧒mpletely change ou🀅r life.”

Honda's Mugello upgrades explained

The private Mugello test for Honda and Yamaha was𒁏 a part of the n🅠ew concessions rule to aid their development.

ꦦMir revealed: “We made a lot of laps, it was a very productive test.

“We tried a lot of things. Aerodynamics, especially. Different configurati🥂ons on the engine.

“We won’t get what we request▨ed at the test 𒁃for [this weekend]. We will have a similar package.

“We are in the progress ꦐof working. We need th🧜is month, two races at the end of June, then another month. From there, we will take a step forward.

“We are working on the correct direction, I am 100% sure.💫 We need effort and work on⛄ that direction.

“This is the homework they m𝔍ust do in Japan. They are working hard, I know it.

“In the next two months we will g🐻et good upgrade✅s on our bike.”

Mir said about the engine he tested: “We tried a different on🃏e. It was better, it helps the bike to turn. This was one area which we lost our way.

“On the other hand, the power changes a bit. 💛They have to put it all together.

“We saw i🅺t can have positive things. But they must work to take a step in the weak points.”

Mir said about new aero parts: “It was𒆙 good, positive. It was not 🅷a big evolution. It was a step.

“I won’t🍬🎉 use it [this weekend]. I will probably use it at the next race.

We are following the steps.”

Mir was 🍸asked if the new Honda upgrades are improving his lap t𓆏ime, or just his feeling with the bike.

“To be translated to lap times, 🦋we mu🌄st improve the weak points,” he said.

“It is better in some areas but we have lost in a lot 🅷of area𒈔s.

“If they can make th🎃e good things now with the g🔜ood things we had in the “past, then they will make a step.”

Mir did, h⭕owever, insist that he finally believes Honda are moving in the right direction.

“Yes. In terms of evolution, yes,” he confirmed.

“Before, I had a feelin💎g inside of me that weᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ were not working in the correct direction.

“Now, I have a good feeling.”

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