Since it became known that the Hamamatsu brand has made the decision to end its adventure in the World Championship at the end of this season, the results of Mir and Alex Rins have fallen as much as the spirit of the Japanese manufacturer’s troop, which combines their day-to-day work with the search for options with a view to the medium-term future.
Neither in Le Mans, two weeks ago, nor in Italy, this Sunday, did any of the Suzuki riders cross the finish line. Especially bloody was his time at Mugello, where the weekend went from bad to worse. None of them won the pass to the second qualifying round (Q2), neither directly nor through the first qualifying round (Q1).
Mir had to start 17th and Alex Rins 21st, on the worst Saturday of 2022 for the blue motorcycle manufacturer.
Far from improving, things got worse for them on Sunday, as they remained bottled up in the pack until they crashed at the same time on lap seven.
Absolutely sunk, Mir attended to the journalists who had traveled to Mugello and was unable to explain the difference in sensations that his GSX-RR has been transmitting for 15 days.
“I had very bad feelings throughout the weekend. I can’t keep up the cornering from last year, nor can I brake. There’s something that isn’t right,” Mir summed up, who directly acknowledged having seen the accident come, even before starting: “I knew I wasn’t going to finish the race, I wasn’t going to be able to spend 23 laps in traffic. I was behind [Jorge] Martín and he closed in front of me”.
Asked about whether the fact that the downfall of the Suzuki couple has precipitated just after the goodbye of the team was made official, the Mallorcan agreed that surely there is a relationship between both elements, but that he sees himself as capable of abstracting himself from all this when he gets on the bike
“It’s not the first time I’ve had problems outside of sports, and I think I know how to separate things. But it’s clear that there isn’t the harmony in the team that there was before [the decision],” said the world champion 2020, which encourages engineers and technicians to turn the situation around. “We have to do something, because spending a year like this can be very long,” settled #36.
