One of the news on Saturday in Aragon came at 1:00 pm via the WhatsApp group of the Suzuki Ecstare team when they announced that world champion Joan Mir will step down from Suzuki after the morning FP3 due to a painful injury to his right ankle. dragging from the brutal highside of the first lap of the Red Bull Ring race. His defeat is not only for the rest of the Aragon GP but he will also miss the next appointment of the Japanese GP next week.
In a press conference, Mir explained the reasons that led him to get off the bike: “We worked a lot on the issue of mobility these two weeks. On Thursday he walked perfectly and we did a very good job. Me too I tried on Tuesday to train here in the karting with 600cc. That’s when I saw that my touch was a bit painful and the foot vibrated a bit, and the rear brake was a bit difficult, but I said: ‘Until Friday I think. I can. “
“But yesterday I also saw that I wasn’t riding properly, I couldn’t take the rear brake. When changing direction and in the right-hand corners I didn’t know where my foot was. Some stability and sensitivity, the two thing. It’s very difficult to drive,” Mir explained.
The Mallorcan knowse that “this year we are not risking anything. If I have to go out on the track to get some points, I will do it, but I don’t think it makes sense now. The most important thing is to come back to 100% and try to finish the season on a level top, and then we will see”, summed up the Majorcan in his appearance in front of the media that we met at MotorLand Aragón.
His team fitted him with a dual rear foot brake lever and they asked him if it wouldn’t be better to try with his injury and like the other riders use the rear thumb brake.
“For the next race, I want to have something like this prepared. If I come back from here in two or three weeks, the only problem I can have is that. Now, the problems are also different , the bone is still not consolidated and you can imagine the risks. We’ll see”.
This 2022 is his annus horribilis MotoGP. “May everything happen to us that should happen to us this year, which is very complicated. I am convinced that for me and for the whole team this will make us stronger in everything. I also want to thank the team, because they have done everything possible from yesterday until today to get him out and drive more or less. We saw in FP3 with medium tires with our pace it was surprisingly good, although I could only do two or three laps do . But then you have to be more precise and do a fast lap, and I can’t. It doesn’t make much sense.
Source: La Verdad
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