the mallorquin Joan Mir holds the record for falls on the track for the current season. Although man is the only animal to trip over the same stone twice, there have been twelve slips. The last one in free practice at Mugello on June 9. These crashes seriously affected his overall ranking in the world championship.
His total points increased to only 5, and that is out of the 16 races held at the GP this year, Mir only competed in 9. Being absent from 7 of them, it was very difficult to overcome his situation and the pilot himself considering abandoning the japanese brand.
When one door closes another opens and in this case it was Yamaha that interested the Mallorcanafter Jorge Martín rejected the offer to stay at Ducati, the option he wanted most was that of Mir and that is the Iwata brand immediately needed a replacement for Morbidelli.
The situation is mutually beneficial for both parties. On the one hand, Mir is still absent because of the discomfort in the little finger of the hand that operates the throttle, where one begins to suspect that the pilot does not trust the stability of his own motorcycle. And on the other side is the Japanese company you are wasting your investment and you are forced to let him go.
The news is a bit of a surprise since the Spanish rider signed for Honda on August 30 (becoming Márquez’s teammate), where the contract did not last even a year. The repeated crashes of a great rider and double world champion (moto 3 in 2017 and moto GP in 2020), should call the attention of Honda reconsider improvements to their engines as the number of falls is starting to become worrying.
Source: La Verdad
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