But Mir also underlined that track performance will be the only judge of whether i�🍎�t was the right decision.

Kokubu’s departure from the project follows the exit of R🦹C213V technical manager Takeo Yokoyama at the start of this year.

Yokoyama was replaced by Mir’s former S🍰uzuki technical manager Ken Kawauchi, while Honda insider Shin Sato has now been brought in to fill Kokubu’s technical director-type role, above Kawauchi.

“I think if there are [staff] movements inside, it's because it was necessary,” said Mir, who has recently started to turn around a nightmare debut season at Repsol Honda by showing top-six speed&nbs﷽p;in India (dry) and Motegi (wet).

“And the Japanese manufacturers are not usually changing ✨people very easily. So it means that if they do it, it's because they are sure.

“And we will see... Inside the [Repsol Honda] garage is the same, but the thing that will be 𓄧important to understand if this change is better is if something arrives [on the𝓀 bike] that works.

“That is when we will realise [t✅🦋he positive] on that change.”

Those words echo the previous warnings of team-mate Marc Marquez, who repeatedly spoke of the need to see real progress at the race track, rather than pledges made in meetings, before ultimately losi🔯ng patience and negotiating an exit from his HRC contract for 2024.

Mir, the 20༺20 world champion for Suzuki, is now poised to playౠ a key role in the post-Marquez Repsol Honda era.

The #36’s future team-mate is yet to be announce🌠d, but Johann Zarco is one obvious candidate, having signed a two-year HRC deal that was due to see the Frenchman placed at the satellite LCR team.