The 2020 world champion switched to the manufacturing unit Honda squad for this season after Suzuki give up the sequence on the finish of final yr.

Mir is the fifth totally different rider in six years to accomplice Marc Marquez at Honda, following Dani Pedrosa in 2018, Lorenzo in 2019, Alex Marquez in 2020 and Espargaro in 2021/2022.

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Pedrosa’s ultimate yr was his first winless one in MotoGP, whereas Lorenzo’s MotoGP profession was successfully ended by the woes he suffered at Honda. Alex Marquez has since departed to Gresini Ducati having struggled at LCR Honda over the past two years.

Mir’s season has been a shocker to this point having scored simply 5 factors from the primary 5 rounds in a usually powerful yr for Honda – albeit one during which Alex Rins did win the Americas GP for LCR.

Following a double crash on the French GP, Mir admits he’s “scared” of struggling the identical destiny as Lorenzo and Espargaro at Honda given the difficulties he at the moment faces.

“For certain I’m scared, for certain, as a result of I need to win,” he stated.

“It’s very tough for a rider like me to see myself within the place that I’m.

“My motivation is to win races, to make podiums, be within the high group, that is what provides me the gasoline for it. It’s a very long time that I don’t have this gasoline.”

Honda launched its Kalex-designed chassis on the French GP for Marc Marquez and Mir to race, with the previous noting that the brand new body was a particular enchancment even when extra areas of the bike nonetheless wanted to be fastened.

Marquez was capable of qualify second and battle for the rostrum in each races at Le Mans, however Mir admits each he and Honda “doesn’t perceive what I must be robust”.

“What I need to do, I can’t do it,” he defined.

“I feel in the intervening time the staff doesn’t perceive what I must be robust. Additionally, I don’t perceive what I’ve to do to journey this bike in a greater approach and to carry out, as a result of I attempt to journey another way, to make a distinct model.

Joan Mir, Repsol Honda Workforce

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“However it’s not my pure model in the intervening time, we aren’t within the place we need to carry pace into the nook, open [the throttle] a bit earlier.

“Each time I’m broad, I open the road. In the meanwhile, we’re struggling. That’s a truth.”

Mir added that he might be fast in FP1 periods, however already reaches the restrict of the bike. Nonetheless, he believes the 2023 Honda might be adjusted to him.

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“I imagine that we are able to alter this one,” stated Mir.

“In the event you perceive a bit of bit the scenario, you see that we arrived right here [to Le Mans], we put out a motorbike in FP1, then I used to be not capable of enhance the lap time of FP1.

“So, I understand how to journey as a result of right away I’m there. But when I attempt to be stronger, all the things turns into extra sophisticated.

“It’s not that I neglect about driving, it’s simply they’ve to know what I have to discover the kind of driving I’m used to.

“After all, as a rider, you possibly can change some issues however you possibly can’t change all the things.

“So, we’ve to search out this compromise with the staff, with what I would like. Now, we’re driving a distinct bike and we weren’t capable of make it work on this journey.”