Honda\u2019s Joan Mir admits he \u201cthought seriously\u201d about retiring from MotoGP in 2023 during a so far difficult first campaign on the RC213V.
The 2020 world champion signed a two-year deal with Honda to join its factory squad from this season after Suzuki elected to quit the championship at the end of 2022.
Since then, Mir's season has been characterised by crashes and injury, the Honda rider missing the Argentina GP, Italian GP and the full Germany and Dutch rounds., in which he spoke about thoughts of retirement, Mir said on Thursday at the Austrian GP:"I'm crossing a tough time. "Now I accept it, I know the situation that I am in and I want to turn things around. It's true that in one moment I thought seriously to stop, but not because I wanted to go to another bike.
"But you say 'if I leave from here, I will regret it in the future'. I was in that situation, but then I thought I wanted to keep trying."
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