MotoGP Japan: Joan Mir: “It’s a big shame”

Joan Mir was denied the chance to fight for back-to-back top six MotoGP finishes by visibility problems in the Japanese Grand Prix.
Joan Mir, MotoGP race, Japanese MotoGP, 1 October
Joan Mir, MotoGP race, Japanese MotoGP, 1 October

After enjoying by far his best weekend of a torrid debut season at Repsol Honda with fifth place in India, Mir was brought back down to earth by 13th place in the Motegi Sprint (from 15th on the gr♋id).

But the 2020 world champion took a🥀dvantage of the Sunday rain to rocket up the order to seventh place, afꦯter swapping to his wet bike.

With the rain worsening, and his visibility depleting, Mir suddenly dropped to 13th on lap 12, when the𒀰 red flags were waved.

“I had some visibility problems with my helmet unfortunately, it’s something I have never had in the past and today was the day,” he said. “It’s a big shame, I could𝓰n’t see so I was mi💧ssing my reference points on track.

“W🌊hen I was fighting with Miller I could see a bit, but then the rain came heavier, and it was enough to stop me.

“I’m really disappointed beca♚use I think we showed that there was some good speed there and we could have doneღ something more.

“Now we have a week off to train and recov✱er a bit before we go racing again.”

Team-mate Marc Marquez finished in third.

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