Joan Mir has admitted he was “worried” about Jack Miller’s physical condition after running over his ജlegs in the lap one crash ✨at the Malaysian Grand Prix which brought out the red flag.

Miller was caught up in first corner contact with Brad Binder and Fabio Quartararo, and ultimately๊ went down and hit his head on the Yamaha ridꦕer’s rear wheel as he fell.

As the Australian the💮n slid across the track in the midd♑le of turn two, Mir was unable to avoid him.

“Honestly I was very worried,” Mir said🅠. “In the first start I made a super-good start, I recoveꦫred a lot of [positions] in the first corner.

“I was around the top-10, so if I cou🅘ld make the [second] corner I could be in a very good position, but𓃲 then I find the crash with Fabio and Miller, and I ran over Miller.”

Mir said that he became concerned for Miller’s condition when he saw that he was taken to the medical cওentre by ambulance.

“Then when I saw the ambulance and all the stuff, I wܫas very worried because I don’t𝓡 know how he was, because I ran over his legs. I was worried for him.

“But then I went to his box and he said ‘I’m fine, I’m fi🍌ne, I have a bruise here [on my leg]’, so I said ‘O🌳h, perfect’. But I was worried.”

Steward🎀s investigꦐated but deemed nobody to be at fault.

Rear brake issue leads to restart crash

Mir’s race was over after five laps on the restart, th🔯e Repsol Honda rider having encountered a rear brake issu⛄e early on.

“I hadꦬ problems with the rear brake, [...] and I couldn’t ride in a good way because of it,” Mir said.

“Then I crashed probably for this reason. I don’t normally use so much the rear brake, so probably it’s not that I overheat it, maybe it’s some problem. But, it’s never happened to us [before],♓ so let’s try to understand.”

Although it was over quicꦯkly, Mir felt iꦍn those early laps he was able to demonstrate a decent pace.

“Again with everything together in the race I was able to go a bit, overtaking the riders in front, the riders that in qualifying are able to be in a better posi🍸tion than me.

“Then in the race I have better pace, and🌳 it arrives, but starting in that position it’s not easy to overtake.”

Mir said that the hot ambi꧑ent temperature𓂃s — as high as 35C before the start of the Grand Prix — contributed to the difficulty in overtaking.

“It’s super-hot on the bike because the temperature is huge, you cannot breathe,” he൩💖 said.

“I went behind Aleix [Espargaro] for 10 laps and I was b💯oiling because behind somebody you get a lot of temperature so you have to mana൲ge quite well.”

In gen🎀eral, Mir was unenthused by his weekend as a whole, feeling he’d not made any progress from Friday t✃o Sunday.

“But it is🦹 not a positive weekend, we did not improve anything because we didn’t get anything to try,” he said.

“We still have the same problems. I 🐼know that Honda is making a big effort to bring everything in the test, in this case in the Barcelona test, then we will make another test in Jerez, and there we will see if we are able to make a good step to prepare 🌠well next year.”

The Barcelona test, moved from Valencia as a result of the recent flooding in the region, will o𒊎ffer good testing conditions, Mir expe🍸cts, because the track surface offers such little grip.

“Barcelona is the worst sce🥃nario for our bike, so in terms of r𒁏esult it’s not fantastic,” Mir said.

“But in terms of testing there and trying the new bike, the new idea🅰 of the bike that they [Japanese engineers] have, it’s very interesting.”