Joan Mir feels former team-mate Alex Rins’ switch to the factory Yamaha team ‘will probably be good for him’ but insists he still believes in Honda’s MotoGP project.
Rins and Mir spent four years together at Suzuki, Rins winning five races on the GSX-RR and Mir the 2020 title.
Hopes were boosted by the arrival of ex-Suzuki technical manager Ken Kawauchi in January. But the clear technical gap to the best of the European bikes has continued. Rins’ return date remains unclear but there is no doubt about where he’ll be in 2024 having secured a switch to the Monster Yamaha team.
But with only an 11th place finish so far this season, in-between two sets of injuries, not to mention Marquez’s zero points in any Sunday races, Mir knows he can’t expect a miracle. “But for me it doesn’t make sense to start to crash like I did in the past, [just] to finish outside the top ten. For me what probably makes more sense, which at the beginning I was not doing, is trying to have a lower expectation for myself.”Don’t push the bike so hard when it's not working?
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