Joan Mir is honest: “I’m still not where I want to be, that’s clear”

Joan Mir (Repsol Honda RC 213 V)despite finishing on the twelfth on the first day of MotoGP Grand Prix of the Americas assured that it was “better than expected, better than other tracks, because we took steps forward, especially in FP2“.

“It’s really crazy because in half a tenth I haven’t been in Q2 eighth or ninth, and I’m always a little behind, because there’s definitely a lot of things that can be improved in terms of the electronics and the set-up, but here that we are open and everyone has taken another step, but it is better than I expected on this bike”, insisted the 2020 MotoGP world champion.

Fall With Zarco

Joan Mir was involved in a final falling out with the Frenchman John Zarcoand explained that “it was in the middle, well actually the bike was moving, it was coming towards me, not because the bike found me in the middle of the track, it was that I arrived at the time when the bike was still giving laps and it seemed to continue, that continued, and I had to go outside and in the end I went into the gravel with no brakes and nothing and I fell, the bike fell and I stayed standing”.

“In ‘eses’, if you fall, you go to the next one and the bike also slipped and I didn’t see it fall; I continued doing ‘eses’ and when I passed six I saw a bike and I had to pick it up, but I haven’t seen it falls because at that point you have to be super precise”, continued Repsol Honda rider about the accident, without it he thinks he would have cut his best time by a half or a tenth.

Ahead of Joan Mir, in third position, he finished alex rinsesabout which the Repsol rider explained that his data was useful to him, although he said that he had not seen it “I don’t know if he followed anyone because here in the slipstreams you can get two or three tenths, You really need to be very sharp and they are there, for sure, but we need to focus more on being calm to pass and be fifth or third and if we see a tenth or a slipstream, then put yourself first”.

“It’s better than not being like that, to the limit, to get tenth because you ‘stressed’ a lot and in the end you pass once, but in the next race you’ll come back to reality and we’re gone for a moment that. ,” Mir admitted.

“Tomorrow in the first classification we will give it our all, but it’s a shame because we didn’t pass in any of the races we did and it’s clear that this was the time when I was the closest, and that gives us hope. that we are following an evolution, but I’m still not where I want to be, that’s clear”, explained the Repsol rider, who declared that the track was in very poor condition.

Circuit in bad condition

“Yes, it’s terrible, above all it’s not homogeneous, it’s fine in some corners, but in other curves the asphalt is old, I don’t know how many years it’s been, then in other parts there is a patch of asphalt. , quite… In eleven, for example, it’s crazy, there are cracks everywhere and that’s it, they let us go there and go, but on that curve you have to watch because it slips a lot”, said Joan Mir in the matter of this

“Here the issue is obviously complicated that the earth is moving and the potholes are made, but I think the plan is the rest of the cement this year. The whole part of the eses had to be paved first. and then this year came the the whole circuit is paved…”, lamented Joan Mir, recalling what had never been done in the American circuit.