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 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.”
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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 weᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ were not working in the correct direction.
“Now, I have a good feeling.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Spor൲ts 🅺for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.