In 2019 and 2020, the official Suzuki team will be the one that fields a pair of riders with the lowest average age. Which also means the least experienced, as we can also consider it the most promising. A bet, an investment, that Davide Brivio, head of Hamamatsu troops on the ground has already explained. But the Italian also fell under the spell of a Joan mir, presented as the phenomenon of tomorrow.
He is already Moto3 World Champion at the end of a 2017 season punctuated by no less than ten successes. He started his work in Moto2 and already boasts two podiums. Joan Mir is therefore building a reputation, but Suzuki already takes for granted that he is a champion in the making. A certainty built not only on a list currently being developed, but also after an in-depth human study that Davide Brivio explains as follows:
« I didn't know Joan very well and wanted to chat with him first. What I did and I was won over by his personality ". He supports: “ you can feel it has something special. You feel it in the way he responds to you. He has a very clear mind. He knows what he wants, he is very motivated and particularly involved in what he does. He works a lot, particularly in his physical preparation. ».
« He has won ten races in Moto3, and it is not trivial to achieve ten successes. He arrived in Moto2 and he showed himself to be competitive from the start. In Austin, he was pushed off the track, he left 24th to finish fifth in the same times as the winner ».
He finishes : " there are several things that indicate he is special. He has the speed, he's a winner, he knows what he wants, what he likes. We already like him a lot. Time will tell if we are right. Joan Mir deserves to be part of our project. At the beginning, Alex Rins will be our leader, then Joan Mir will mature. They will then be able to fight against each other and we will have a competitive team ».
