Joan Mir slams ‘unproductive’ Honda MotoGP test: ‘We expected much more’

2020 world champion underwhelmed by lack o🌸f updates at Barcelona test

Joan Mir, Honda, 2024 Barcelona MotoGP test
Joan Mir, Honda, 2024 Barcelona MotoGP test
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Joan Mir says Tuesday at the Barcelona MotꩲoGP test “wasn’t a productive day” for him or Honda as “everything we tried, we have tried before”.

Honda concluded its worst season 🥀in MotoGP last weekဣend at the Solidarity Grand Prix, in which it was last in the constructors’ championship with just 75 points.

While it has used its status as a concession manufacturer to make progress with its RC213V, particula🍸rly n the latter part of the campaigꦐn with the introduction of a new aero package that improved turning, it is still far from being a podium contender.

In the o🐟fficial test after the San Marino GP, Honda brought new items, including the aero, which led to its boost in form.

But in 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:this week’s Barcelona test, in which Mir was 15th afte꧃r 67 laps, he was left disheartened by what he fel𓆏t was a lack of new items.

“Not🃏 very happy. It wasn’t a productive dayꩲ,” he said.

“Everything we tried we have tried before. We didn’t have any new upgrad𓆉es that allowed us to be faster.

“We were working with our standard package and with a packꦯage in the past that wasn’t working.

“So, you can imagine the day was not the day I expected. I just hopꦗe that next week in Jerez we will receive more upgra✨des.”

When asked by mahbx.com if he felt Honda was working hard enough, he replied: “This is what I thought, but the reality is that we expec🎉ted much more.”

Mir says that Honda told him the reaso🐼n he had no new items to try was because꧟ of “the timings; they didn’t make it”.

The 2020 world champion also noted that the post-se💦ason test is one of the “important points” of the year that Honda has now missed to introduce a new bike.

“Normally, the impo�🐈�rtant points during the year, the Misano test is one, we received some aerodynamics which were working, a different engine configuration,” he said.

“And Valenci🔜a, or in this case Barcelona,𒁏 the last test of the season is always super important.

“It was in the past where you could see two bikes in Honda, in the manufacturers, you normally see another new bike. We didn’t get it. I hope🌃 that we get it soon.”

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