Joan Mir: “We can’t expect a big leap at this stage”
"It’s about step ꦗby step, making steady progress and we can’t expect a big leap at this stage.”
Joan Mir has played down expectations of a Honda breakthrough during his first home Spanish MotoGP round of the season, at Jerez, this weekend.
Honda returns to Europe af♊ter enduring a disastrous COTA round.
Following the hig🍸h of victory with 🧸Alex Rins in 2023, the four Honda riders languished at the bottom of the timesheets for much of the 2024 Americas weekend.
Mir’s team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Luca Marini was the only RCV rider to reach the chequer♑ed flag,𝔍 in last place, during both the Sprint and Grand Prix races.
“I think coming to𓃲 a race like Jerez where you have all the home fans to support you will be a help afte♛r the tough weekend we had in Austin,” Mir said.
“It’s important to put that behind༺ us and keep working like we did at the start of the year to understand the capability of the bike this weekend.”
After COTA, Repsol riders Mir and Luca Marini joi🎀ned HRC test rider Stefan Bradl in a private outing at Barcelona.
But if any major developments appear at Jerez, it seems it will only be after the race we🃏ekend, during theꦯ official Monday test.
“We are realistic about what is possible, and we need to focus on making improvements and aiming for more in the future,” Mir said. “It’s about step by step, making steady progress and𒆙 we can’t expect a big leap at this stage.”
New Repsol signing Marini can at least count on some previous private testing laps on the Honda at🧜 Jerez, as well as Bradl’s test data at the track.
“It𝓰’s another weekend to keep workin🏅g with the team and aim for more improvements,” said the Italian.
“Now is not the time to stop working, we have to keep on gathering information and not only trying to improve our current package but also work🀅ing on developments for the future.
“Jere๊z is a good track for this kind of job, the Test Team has done a lot of testing here and will be with us this weekend so it will be interesting to see what we can learnඣ from this.”
Bradl will be making his first wild-card appearance of the season this weekend, al🌜ongside fellow test riders Dani Pedrosa (KTM) and Lorenzo Savadori (Aprilia).
LCR's Takaaki Nakagami was the top Honda finish꧋er, in ninth, at Jerez🧸 last year.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has se🅘en Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
