The 2020 world champion switched to the manufacturing facility Honda squad for this season after Suzuki stop the sequence on the finish of final yr.
Mir is the fifth completely different rider in six years to associate Marc Marquez at Honda, following Dani Pedrosa in 2018, Lorenzo in 2019, Alex Marquez in 2020 and Espargaro in 2021/2022.
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Pedrosa’s closing yr was his first winless one in MotoGP, whereas Lorenzo’s MotoGP profession was successfully ended by the woes he suffered at Honda. Alex Marquez has since departed to Gresini Ducati having struggled at LCR Honda during the last two years.
Mir’s season has been a shocker to this point having scored simply 5 factors from the primary 5 rounds in a usually powerful yr for Honda – albeit one by which Alex Rins did win the Americas GP for LCR.
Following a double crash on the French GP, Mir admits he’s “scared” of struggling the identical destiny as Lorenzo and Espargaro at Honda given the difficulties he at present faces.
“For positive I’m scared, for positive, as a result of I wish to win,” he mentioned.
“It’s very tough for a rider like me to see myself within the place that I’m.
“My motivation is to win races, to make podiums, be within the high group, that is what offers me the gasoline for it. It’s a very long time that I don’t have this gasoline.”
Honda launched its Kalex-designed chassis on the French GP for Marc Marquez and Mir to race, with the previous noting that the brand new body was a particular enchancment even when extra areas of the bike nonetheless wanted to be mounted.
Marquez was capable of qualify second and struggle for the rostrum in each races at Le Mans, however Mir admits each he and Honda “doesn’t perceive what I should be sturdy”.
“What I wish to do, I can’t do it,” he defined.
“I feel in the mean time the crew doesn’t perceive what I should be sturdy. Additionally, I don’t perceive what I’ve to do to journey this bike in a greater approach and to carry out, as a result of I attempt to journey differently, to make a distinct fashion.
Joan Mir, Repsol Honda Workforce
Picture by: Marc Fleury
“However it’s not my pure fashion in the mean time, we aren’t within the place we wish to carry velocity into the nook, open [the throttle] a bit earlier.
“Each time I’m huge, I open the road. In the meanwhile, we’re struggling. That’s a reality.”
Mir added that he could be fast in FP1 classes, however already reaches the restrict of the bike. Nonetheless, he believes the 2023 Honda could be adjusted to him.
“I imagine that we are able to regulate this one,” mentioned Mir.
“If you happen to perceive a little bit bit the state of affairs, you see that we arrived right here [to Le Mans], we put out a motorbike in FP1, then I used to be not capable of enhance the lap time of FP1.
“So, I understand how to journey as a result of right away I’m there. But when I attempt to be stronger, every part turns into extra difficult.
“It’s not that I neglect about driving, it’s simply they’ve to know what I must discover the kind of driving I’m used to.
“After all, as a rider, you possibly can change some issues however you possibly can’t change every part.
“So, we now have to search out this compromise with the crew, with what I want. Now, we’re driving a distinct bike and we weren’t capable of make it work on this journey.”
