Mir: "The next time I'll look for a rueda or some rebufo"

They ran like never before but they finished where they always did, in the middle of the grid. A third row for Joan Mir , and a fourth for Alex Rins , showing that the Achilles’ heel of the GSX-RR is still the dry lap classification.

Both Mir and Rins also acted as hares for other riders, going out on the track alone to look for the time and seeing their rivals catch up with them and end up better classified on the grid, a strategy that Suzuki riders do not usually use.

“In conditions like today, with a headwind, or even just when the wind blows on the track, when you follow someone you don’t notice it as much,” explained the Balearic pilot.

“I have wanted to do the time alone, but it is clear that if you follow another rider you have a little more. We already know for the next time, they are experiences that I am accumulating”, said Joan keeping a calm tone, without wanting to get into conflict.

Mir did not want to say names or point to anyone, but it is clear that Marc Márquez made the time to his wheel, so close that it almost brushed him on the straight.

“For the next time, we will propose a slightly different strategy, and for us, who are used to always going alone in the classification, it will be more important to do it by taking a wheel or a slipstream, which always helps,” he said more as a claim than by own conviction.

Despite starting eighth on the grid, Mir is possibly one of the drivers with the best race pace this weekend, if not the best.

“I expect a race that is normally seen in this circuit, with a group start that will be reduced as the laps progress,” he visualized.

“For my part, I hope to be able to fight until the end, the pace we have is quite good, I feel very good on the bike and this is very important. We started eighth, it is not the best position, but we have also had good races starting even from further back”, settled the 2020 champion.

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