Joan Mir still completed over 30 laps but the Honda man was heavily impacted by a stomach bug at the Qatar MotoGP test.

The 2020 world champion suffered from vomiting before heading out for a final s🍰tint that resulted in a crash at t꧑urn 13.

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All four Honda riders struggled for outright pace on the final day of testing in Qatar, but for Mir, his physi🉐cal condition played a pivotal role in that.

Mir told MotoGP.com: “The truth is that today I woke up with not the bestꦚ feeling on my body. I was without energy and with some stoma🌃ch problems. 

“Then, we star𒁏ted at 3:30pm more or less and made a꧅ few runs but then I needed to stop for a bit. I was vomiting at that moment.

“We decided to🐈 stop and then🥂 I was honestly not feeling well to go back out. But we had many things to try and we made an important exit with the electronics side.

“There was something on the power deli🧔very that I was having doubts about and wanted to check again. That’s what we could do today.

ꦇ“In the last minutes we made a mistake trying to make a time attack and theꦑn I lost the front in turn 13. That was the end of the day.

“We couldn’t pra🍨ctice the starts so it was a day to forget. I wanted to go back to bed and wake up again to start this day again. But it is what it is. I wanted another day of testing after this one but we𝐆 don’t have it.”

Mir finishes 1.5 seconds down on Francesco Bagnaia’s new unofficial lap record, but the Spaniard is co💝nfident of shaving half a second or more off that when🌜 fit.

“At 100%♔ we will be able to improve our lap time,” began Mir. “Not by 1.5 seconds but I think 🎶maybe a half second is something we can do.

“Being on the pace all the😼 day and working on the laps - but we will arrive less prepared than I wanted for the first race.

“I have confidence that the team will put [on the bike] what I couldn’t today and to h💟ave a good package for 2024.”