Rins, like Joan Mir, his partner at the Hamamatsu brand, had his renewal very downhill, before, after the collective test in Jerez, the news broke of the closure of the MotoGP division at the end of this course.
That door slam not only left the two riders and the rest of the team members in a state of shock, but also shook the rest of the structures, who suddenly found themselves with two of the drivers considered ‘top’, available.
The announcement of the renewal of Fabio Quartararo by Yamaha, until the end of 2024, was an open secret, although it will surely also act as an accelerator for the rest of the operations.
Rins hopes to be among them and that is what his agent has been working on since the French Grand Prix, in which he sat down to talk to anyone who might have a place in which to place his client.
“Surely in this life there is nothing, but I think I have the level and the potential to be in MotoGP next year. If it’s not in a brand that I like, it will be in another. This decision by Suzuki caught everyone by surprise. many, and surely that is why it is taking a little longer than necessary”, summarized Rins, this Thursday, from Montmeló.
“To give an example: that Mir can go to Honda. I don’t know if Alberto Puig [Honda’s team manager] or Takeo Yokoyama [technical director] plans to be interested in Mir. No rider has a contract above the table still”, added the Barcelona rider, who during the weekends of the Grand Prix makes an effort to stay away from all the rumours, to return to matters related to his future on Mondays.
“I’m not a superhero, so I tell him to do his job, and we’ll talk about that after the race. I already have enough pressure driving in this situation to increase it a little more,” Rins clinched.
