Joan Mir: “Options on the table, but I don't really know what I want”
Joan Mir needs ‘a bit𓆏 more time’ to ‘take a ౠgood decision for my future’.

After spending his entire MotoGP career at Suzuki and winning the 2020 title, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Joan Mir suddenly found himself needing a neꦜw team when the factory decided to quit at the end of 2022.
Now in the second and final year of his current ꦿRepsol Honda contract, the 26-year-old must🗹 make a similar call to former team-mate Marc Marquez:
Shou﷽ld Mir stay and bet on a Honda recovery or seek instant competitiveness by moving to a ꦍEuropean bike, even if that means joining a satellite team?
How much Marquez’s frontrunning form after walking out of Honda for a year-old Gresini Ducati will inf💦luence Mir’s choice is unclear but the #36 admits to having multiple ‘options on the table’.
“I have options on thꦺe table, but I don't♍ really know what I want to do,” Mir said. “I need a bit more time, to understand, to take a good decision for my future. This is the reality.”
After 24 top-five finishes, including 13 podiumꦐs and a race win, at Suzuki, Mir ꦅscored just 26 points at Honda last season.
Of the six grand prix he finished, between accide𓄧nts and injuries, the Spani꧒ard’s best was a fifth place in India, his only top ten appearance.
While Mi🐻r is Honda’s top rider in the early 2024 standings, he🐠 has scored just twelve points and finished no higher than twelfth in a grand prix.
Mir admitted the step change in results since leaving Suzuki, which new Repsol team-mate Lღuca Marini is also now experiencing, takes its to♌ll mentally.
“Very difficult. Because speaking about myself, I came from in [four] years winning two titles, in three different categories,” said the 2017 Moto3 wo🥀rld champion.
“So it means that I was always in the front in every yea🦩r. A bad year was to be fighting foღr fifth position.
“You feed off the good results. Now you don't have this any more🔯, so you have to motivate yourself in a differღent way.
“The small things, making a good race with the package that you have, that actuall🥀y you cannot do more. And giving 100%. This is the motivation that you have to find at the moment.
“It's true that it's tough. The more success you've ha🐲d in the past, the more ꦓdifficult it is to understand the situation.
“Last year was a very dꦜifficult one for me, mentally. But this year I think I'm in a dif﷽ferent mood.
“I try to give my 100%, be professi𝓡onal, give the corre🐼ct feedback, and I just expect to get better. “
However, speaking before this week’s private Mugello test, Mir conf🅷essed:
“Honda are working very hard, but at the 🍷moment we are not getting the upgrades that we need. So I don't know 🐟honestly what to expect at the end of the season.
“I ho🅰pe that💟 in the Mugello test we will get an upgrade to make one step more.
“If like ꦦin Jerez, we were 20 seconds from the [top] with this packaജge, then if we can be +12 or 15 seconds, that will be one step.”
Among the teams that could be interested in trying💫 to temp Mir from Repsol Honda are Trackhouse, now run by Mir’s former Suzuki team p🍨rincipal Davide Brivio.
Of✱ Honda’s four MotoGP riders, Mir and Takaaki Nakagami are out of contract this season, with new arrivals Marini and Zarco having deals in place until the end of 2025.

Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen V♓alentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the❀ Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.