Deep into his second season as a manufacturing unit Honda MotoGP rider, Joan Mir continues to look to the longer term.
Having scored a finest results of ninth to date this season, that coming within the Spanish Dash, 2020 World Champion Mir says HRC has been “busy” through the week-and-a-half for the reason that Austrian Grand Prix, by which the most effective Honda rider was LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami in 14th.
“It has been busy for us after the race in Austria,” Mir stated forward of the upcoming Aragon Grand Prix. “However busy is sweet as a result of everybody concerned within the undertaking has been engaged on the longer term.
“I’m wanting ahead to returning to Aragon, the final time I raced there I used to be on the rostrum in 2021.
“The method for the weekend will probably be just like the previous races the place we are going to work on what we have to work on and see what’s potential when the lights exit on Saturday and Sunday.”
Mir’s Repsol Honda teammate Luca Marini suffered his first retirement as an HRC rider final day trip in Austria. The Italian has raced 3 times at MotorLand in MotoGP, taking a finest end of seventh in 2022, whereas in Moto2 he was fourth in 2019.
For this 12 months’s version, Marini is concentrated on his efficiency relative to the opposite Honda riders, and feels that MotoGP’s one-year absence from the newly-resurfaced Aragon won’t have a lot influence.
“I’m wanting ahead to the subsequent race after the disappointing finish we had in Austria,” Marini stated. “Going into the weekend I do know that we will present our degree in comparison with the opposite Honda riders and maintain making enhancements.
“We return to Aragon after not being there final 12 months, however I don’t suppose this may change a lot.”
