"Of course, I want to win the title with Suzuki"

Alex Rins (Barcelona, ​​8-12-1995) is the fashionable rider of MotoGP. He is losing success in 2022, but because of his regularity, he has been given the opportunity to co-leader at the Jerez event, the sixth of the season, and he has a good chance of emerging as a leader, although he makes sure that for now not him.her. a target in this interview conducted at the Estrella Galicia 0.0 event in Jerez. Within a year, he went from adding six crashes to the race to becoming one of the most consistent riders and signed one of the most incredible returns in MotoGP history on Sunday in Portimao. He prefers to keep to himself the work he does with the psychologist and he makes sure there are many keys that explain his 2022.

After being third in 2020, no one is preparing for 2021 with six race crashes that knocked you out of the title. Have you checked what happened?

Of course we analyzed what happened, it was a season that we did not expect, there were many falls, it was very irregular, the speed with which we could be with those at the top, but we were not the same. Based on work and effort and a little bit of bike improvement and a little bit of self -improvement, we made that step forward as we show this year. We found things, yes.

Improving the bike a bit, on the machine, it allows us to go faster on straight roads, not losing that position to the rival in front of us or that we overtook the curve. After improving the work outside the box, what we do at home, in the gym, a little mental work, diet, everything together adds up to this.

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Ever since you signed up for Suzuki, I seem to remember that you have included the figure of a psychologist in your personal team, so in principle this is just one of the keys that explains this new Alex Rins version 2022. It also needs to do that have a personal maturity or have you done something special to prepare now for 2022 and achieve this regularity

This is one of the other things, it’s not just a puzzle piece, you have to put everything in place to get there fast

Although pilots are often not easy to accept to talk about with the help of a psychologist, you can share how it helps you in the athletic aspect, how you work.

I prefer to keep it to myself. But we do a lot, yes

You said on Sunday in Portimao that you work differently with your team and that will explain your perseverance. you can provide more details

It’s not that we do it differently or we change the bike from morning to night, there’s not too much mystery, we don’t do anything that we didn’t do last year, it’s fixing a lot of things, in the end there’s not much mystery. Last year we had speed, but we weren’t consistent, but I had a lot of races ahead. At the end in Portimao I fell in the fight for first-second place leaving the third 5 “, in Cheste we fell in the fight for victory with Ducati. It wasn’t too weird what we did.

What there is no way to improve is the subject of qualification every Saturday, the two podiums came after the start of at least the third row. What is at stake in improving this aspect?

To make a quick lap you have to exceed the limit at every corner and saw what we saw because we were in MotoGP with Suzuki it was hard for me to bring this bike to the limit at every corner to make a good qualified lap. it is true that we reach it once, but usually not. You have to keep working and keep pushing to achieve this

On Sunday in Portimao, you signed one of the most memorable returns to the race, 13 drivers on just five corners and from 23rd to 4th finish. You said on Sunday that you don’t even remember how it happened. It’s pure intuition, it’s luck, does that work?

You’re not trying, it’s knowing how to be present at the right time. We started in the penultimate, we made a lot of positions in the first three corners and in the first lap, but I also took a lot of risks. At the end of the first corner I decided to do it outside, which allowed me to get a lot of position, but still went through the dirty area and accepted the fact that there were some riders who might approach me.

Is it among your best careers even if you don’t win?

I think this is one of my best comebacks. Eventually I would have liked to get on the podium or win the race, but when I got to Aleix it was so hard for me to catch up with him and escape, I came in with a broken tire on the over-climb, hard for me.

You come to Jerez with the possibility of being the leader, something you already tasted in Moto3 in 2013 and even in MotoGP in 2019 you left Jerez 1 point behind Marc and then in Le Mans you never reached it . How much value do you place on the ability to say after Sunday’s race that I am the leader of MotoGP? There are only eight Spanish pilots in history

We don’t give it much importance, in the end it’s just the sixth longest championship race in history with 21 races and many more championships in the future. What we should focus on is being competitive, doing what we do every weekend, leading almost all of the sessions, and when it reaches the end we will start to develop strategy and we will start to think about the championship, where are we, I don’t think this is the time to make calculations or if we need to be leaders

Suzuki, in the words of Livio Suppo, has already publicly stated that its goal is to keep its two riders. Does it give peace of mind or as long as it is not tied you will not be at peace?

Livio told us about it from Qatar and also told it on TV and the truth is it gives you peace of mind to ride because you know a factory like Suzuki loves you and you want to continue with them

Is staying at Suzuki your priority or after five years do you want to be competitive on another bike?

I am very calm, the offers that may come obviously my manager will listen to them. You don’t know, there are many twists in this life, but I feel so good in Suzuki right now

Since the 800cc season at the Yamaha Factory with Rossi and Lorenzo more than 10 years ago, the two have never been world champions again. Would it be an incentive to continue that if Joan could be a champion at Suzuki you could too?

Of course I’m here to win, I’d be lying if I said otherwise. Ultimately, everyone has their own approach and everyone is preparing for the highest, no other goal. Of course I would like to win with Suzuki and if I see that I am not capable of one of the two, I will try another team or I will retire. When you see you are no longer giving, no more.

What does Livio Suppo’s hand show to the team? Is the atmosphere today comparable to Davide Brivio’s time?

They can’t be compared because Davide had a job from the time the team was formed until he left and this past year that he didn’t get there was very noticeable and the team lasted even though it didn’t look like it. like many from the outside. The work Livio does now is different from what Davide has done all these years from what I can see and I am super happy and super comfortable with him, with the work he does and I am happy to have a figure like him. the team.