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’.

Joan Mir, 2024 French MotoGP
Joan Mir, 2024 French MotoGP

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.

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