Joan Mir: “Options on the table, but I don't really know what I want”

Joan Mir🗹 needs ‘a bit ♑more time’ to ‘take a good 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 new team when the factory decided to quit ꦇat the end of 2022.

Now in the second and final year of his current Repsol Honda contract, the 26-year-old must make a simila🦂r call to former team-mate Marc Marquez: 

Should Mir stay and bet on a Honda recovery or seek instant competitiveness by moꦑvi🦩ng to a European 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 influence Mir’s choice is✅ unclear but the #36 admits to having multiple ‘options on the table’.

I have options on the table, but I don't really know what I want to do,” Mir said. “I need a bit ꦡmore time, to understand, to take a good decision🌊 for my future. This is the reality.”

After 24 top-five finishes, including 13 podiums and a race ꧅win, at Suzuki, Mir scored jus🐻t 26 points at Honda last season.

Of the six grand prix he finished, between accidents and injuries, the Spaniard’s 𝕴best was a fifth place in Ind🍸ia, his only top ten appearance.

While Mir 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 Luca Marini is also now experiencing, takes its toll mentall🌸y.

Very difficult. Because speaking about myself, I came from in [four] years winning two titles, in three different categorie🔥s,” said the 2017 Moto3 world champion.

“So it means th🌃at I was always in the front in every year. A bad year was to be fightin🤪g for fifth position.

“You feed off th🌊e good resu♔lts. Now you don't have this any more, so you have to motivate yourself in a different way.

“The small things, making a good race with the package that you have, that actually 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 had in the past, the more diཧfficult it is to understand the situation.

“Last year ꩵwas a very difficult one for me, mentall🔥y. But this year I think I'm in a different mood.

“I try to give my 100%🍸, be professional, give the correct feedback, and I just expect to get better. “

However, speaking be𝕴fore this week’s private Mugello test, Mir confessed:

“Honda are working very hard, but at the moment we are not getting the upgrades that we need. So I don't know honestly w🍸hat to expect at the end of the season.

I hope that in the Mugello test we will get an🌃 upgrade to make one step mor🍰e.

“If like in Jerez, we were 20 seconds from the [top] with this package, then if we can be +12 or 15 seconds, thꩵat 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 principal Davide Brivio.

Of Honda’s four MotoGP riders, Mir and Takaaki Nakagami ar💫e out of contract this season, with new arrivals Marini and Zarco havi🐼ng deals in place until the end of 2025.

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