Joan Mir of Suzuki claims that if it hadn’t been for the rain, he would not have finished sixth instead of 17th at the MotoGP Indonesian Grand Prix last Sunday.
After a dramatic tumble in Q1, the 2020 winner was left stranded in 18th place on the grid, while Marc Marquez’s retirement from the race moved Mir to 17th place.
The Suzuki rider struggled for rear grip throughout the weekend on Michelin’s 2018 tyre composition, which it had brought to the Indonesian GP in reaction to the high heat.
Mir took advantage of the rainy weather to jump from 17th to eighth on the opening lap of the 20-lap race, eventually finishing sixth behind Suzuki teammate Alex Rins.
Mir concedes that his run to sixth place would not have been feasible if the race had not been rainy, despite tiny dry set-up advances in Sunday’s warm-up session.
“Well, in the warm-up we improved a little bit,” Mir said when asked by Motorsport.com if Sunday’s thunderstorm was a blessing for him.
“I was struggling a little bit in sector four, but to make sixth position in completely dry, I think it would be something really difficult.
“I don’t think that it was possible. It’s a really important result because it could have been a lot worse.”
Due to safety concerns raised by the Mandalika track conditions breaking up at the last circuit, the race was cut from 27 laps to 20 laps.
Mir acknowledges it’s a “shame” because he thought he could have progressed on the sixth, where he finally claimed the chequered flag.
“Well, finally I was able to get back a bit the feelings that make me fast and I’m happy,” he added.
“Just one thing that was not positive is that we’ve been working in the direction of all the weekend, that we were struggling a lot, and in this race I was really struggling to stop the bike.
“I was going really wide, I think in every lap I went wide in Turn 10 and was difficult.
“But we have to be happy, because we made a really good first laps.
“It was a shame it was a 20-lap race, because I had something more at the end of the race. But anyway, it’s ok like this.”
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