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

202✅0 world champion underwhelmed by ☂lack of 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 MotoGP test “wasn’t a productive day🍸” for him or Honda as “everything we tꦐried, we have tried before”.

Honda concluded its worst season in MotoGP last weekend 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, particularly n the latter part of the campaign with the introduction of a new ae💜ro package that improved turning, it is still far from being a podium contender.

In the official test after t🍰he San Ma𒁏rino 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 after 67 laps, he was left disheartened by what he felt was a lack 🦹of new items.

“Not very happy. It wasn’t a productive da📖y,” he𓆉 said.

ও“Everything we tried we have tried before. We didn’t have any new upgrades t🌠hat allowed us to be faster.

“We were working with ou꧂r standard package and with a package in the past thatꦇ wasn’t working.

“So, you can imagine the day🦄 was not the day I expected. I just hope that next week in Jerez we will receive more upgrades.”

When asked by ltxcn.top if he felt Honda was working hard enough, he replied: “This is what I thought, but the reality is that we expect🌠ed much more.”

Mir says that Honda told him the reason heꩵ had no new items to try was because of “the timings; they d🅘idn’t make it”.

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

“Normally, the important points during the year, the Misano test is one, we received some aerodynamics which were working, a different♐ engine configuraꦯtion,” he said.

“And Valencia, or in this case Barcelona, 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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