After the first two races of the year, Suzuki boasts a fifth place at the Indonesian round as its best result, and its drivers Alex Rins and Joan Mir add 20 points each, which places them in eighth and ninth position in the standings. general.
Looking ahead to what may happen at the Argentine Grand Prix – if the necessary equipment finally arrives by plane to compete in the weekend – Mir is calm and points out that Suzuki has a good tool in its hands and what it needs is time to developing.
“I think that we are not yet fully squeezing the level of this bike. I think that by working on the set-up, on the electronics, etc., the bike can give more. It takes a little time to understand how far we can go and continue improving the bike, because the bike is faster,” said the 2020 world champion.
However, before Suzuki’s potential can be assessed this weekend at Termas de Río Hondo, the championship material needs to finish arriving, something that is expected to happen on Friday.
“What I do is stay a little away from this, try to be focused and solve it, but the truth is that it’s a shame that we can’t move forward,” Mir commented on the matter.
“We have to bear in mind that it is a difficult time, that we are getting ahead of COVID, that there is a war in the world. Well, a few, but at least in Europe there is a big one and that we are trying to get out of this. These things can happen,” he added.
Regarding the two-day format, the Spaniard compared the situation to a weekend of unstable weather.
“This is similar to when it rains on a Friday and Saturday is dry. It’s similar to that but without having done a single lap. It will be difficult, above all we will have to cross our fingers a bit because there are times when you put the bike in track and you touch a little and you do the whole weekend like this, the bike is perfect and then you have a good weekend”.
“But there are times when it’s not like that, that you have to get everything ready and normally what we won’t have, which will be the biggest difference, is on Friday night to get the bike ready with the team to take a step forward. the next day. We won’t have that time to do it or study it so perfect. We’ll see.”
