Joan Mir has achieved two podium finishes in four GPs and hopes to repeat his performance to conclude this complicated season in a positive way.
Joan mir Will he manage to end his 2025 season on a high note? That's certainly what the Spanish rider hopes for, after another complicated year with Honda, despite a clear improvement in the RC213V's performance. While the overall result is more than mixed, with a large number of crashes, he has nonetheless produced several flashes of brilliance that give him hope for a positive outcome.
The latest is the podium finish he achieved at the Malaysian Grand Prix15 days ago. Although Francesco Bagnaia's withdrawal due to a puncture allowed him to get on the course, Mir He had nonetheless secured fourth place, which is a huge leap forward compared to last year. On some tracks this year, the Honda proved much more competitive, and when he wasn't able to capitalize on that, his teammate Luca Marini shone, albeit more discreetly.
Meanwhile, number 36 delighted the Honda camp on home soil in Japan, securing a solid second place and thus his first podium finish with the Japanese manufacturer. The icing on the cake of a weekend that began perfectly with a fourth-place finish in the sprint race the previous day, this podium had a beneficial effect on the following race in Indonesia, where he achieved a top-five finish on Saturday. However, he made a mistake the next day before experiencing a difficult Grand Prix in Australia two weeks later.
Finally, Mir managed to start and finish the overseas tour on a podium, and naturally hopes to maintain this momentum for the last two Grands Prix of the season, in Portugal and Valencia, in order to turn with positive momentum towards 2026.
"We finished the overseas races in style and I want to get back on the podium."he said. “In the past, we’ve achieved good results at Portimão with the Honda RC213V, and the bike and I are performing much better now. The goal is to quickly find our baseline setup and make the final adjustments over the weekend. We have two races left to finish the season in the best possible way and show our speed. There’s no doubt about the progress we’ve made this year. Two more races until 2025, then all our attention will be on 2026 and beyond.”
