Deep into his second season as a factory Honda MotoGP rider, ♔⛄Joan Mir continues to look to the future.

Having scored a best result of ninth so far this season, ꦫthat coming in the Spanish Sprint, 2020 World Champion Mir says HRC has been “busy” during the week-and-a-half since the Austrian Grand Prix, in which the best Honda rider was LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami in 14th.

“It has ♛been busy for us after the race in Austria,” Mir said ahead of the upcoming Aragon Grand Prix. “But busy is good because everyone involved in the project has been working on the futureꦅ.

“I💖 am looking forward to returning to Aragon, the last time I raced there I was on the podium in 2021.

“The approach for the weekend will beꦛ similar to the past races where we will work on what we need to work on and see what’s possible when the lights go out on Saturday and Sunday.”

Mir’s Repsol Honda teammate Luca Marini suffered his first retirement as an HRC rider last time ou♈t in Austria. The Italian has raced three times at MotorLand in MotoGP, taking a best finish of seventh in 2022, while in Moto2 he was fourth in 2019.

For this year’s edition, Marini is focused on his performance relative to the other Honda riders, and feels th❀at MotoGP’s one-year absence from the newly-resurfaced Aragon will🐲 not have much impact.

“I am looking forward to the next race after 🎃the disappointing end we had in Austria,” Marini 🥀said. “Going into the weekend I know that we can show our level compared to the other Honda riders and keep making improvements.

“We go back to Aragon after not being🌳 there last year, but I don’t think this will change so much.”