Following a great beginning of the 2022 season with its new bike, Joan Mir claims Suzuki is “creating races like in 2020,” when he claimed the MotoGP championship.
The year before, the Spaniard’s title defence was hampered by a lack of improvement on the GSX-RR, which saw him finish third in the rankings and unable to add to his win total.
Mir is yet to win a race in 2022, while colleague Alex Rins has two – including last week at COTA, which marked Suzuki’s 500th grand prix – but he has completed every race so far within the top six and is only 15 points behind the title leader in fourth.
After experiencing problems with rear grip in Qatar, Mir thinks Suzuki has improved since then and is beginning to produce “less to more” races, such as the one he managed to win in 2020.
“I think in Europe, we will make that click that we are missing at the moment,” Mir said at COTA after finishing fourth. “In Argentina we did a really good race, in Mandalika also in the wet.
“In Qatar we saw that we missed something, but the truth is from Qatar to now I’ve started to feel a lot better. We’re starting to make races like in 2020, from less to more and trying to give the 100% of the potential of our bike.
“So, let’s continue like that. I think that this year if we are focused and we are able to make that next click with this bike that I think we can do it, we will fight again for a good position at the end of the season for sure.”
“Considering that it’s a track that… during the weekend I didn’t want to mention because bad words don’t help,” Mir said of his COTA race.
“But this track is just different than the others and I don’t enjoy riding on this track. And also it’s a track that when you don’t enjoy riding, you always miss something.
“So, to be able to finish here in fourth position is something great. It means we are doing steps forward, positive ones. We came from behind and the last part of the race was a positive one.
“And step by step I was overtaking and I was feeling great. I’m so pleased about everything is going. Fourth position is always a position you don’t want to finish in. Fifth or third is always better. But anyway, it’s great.”
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