MotoGP Joan Mir: “I don’t know if I can experience another year like this again”

Since Joan Mir won his MotoGP world title in 2020, which was his second career after that of Moto3, nothing has gone right. To believe that this vintage – which was the one which marked a narrow and delicate passage between a world before and the one after, under the escort of a pandemic from which we surprisingly no longer speak – was cursed for the MotoGP riders. We will indeed recall that Marc Marquez was seriously injured there, opening a period of calamity which still affects Honda in its fundamentals today, and that the vice-champion of the one who was then on a Suzuki did not was other than a Franco Morbidelli who was never seen again at such a party. Still, Joan Mir hopes more than anything that this new season of disillusionment and frustration will be the last...

Joan mir had to urgently reorient his career last year when a distant board of directors dropped the ax on a project Suzuki in MotoGP which brought honor to the brand. But not the happiness of the accountants who euthanized without notice and with specious arguments the beautiful GSX-RR adventure. He thus negotiated his place at Honda Repsol, a once prestigious destination that is now a masterpiece in danger.

Joan Mir: “ I'm in a phase where I have to find everything »

Jorge Lorenzo et Pol Espargaro before him had broken their teeth there and Joan mir, since then, has been breaking his back there. During the last San Marino Grand Prix in Misano, he suffered his fifteenth fall of the season. He has only five World Championship points since eleventh place in the season opener at Portimao… The kind of spiral that sucks you into the abyss. And for the Majorcan, this is indeed the case: “ after all the falls and how difficult the year has been so far, I'm in a phase where I have to get it all back. I need to feel good with the bike again, even if the results are not good ».

The worst part is that he doesn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. Because the Misano test with the RC213V evolved and carrying the bases of the opus MotoGP 2024 has only lengthened and darkened it a little more… “ We've made progress in a few areas, although it's not a big step » he commented soberly on this experience. Before letting go: “ it would be very difficult for me to experience another year like this. I don't know if I can do it ».