Rins: "Our preseason starts on Tuesday"

The Spaniard started from ninth place on the starting grid, closing the third row, and was avoiding rivals until he placed fourth, behind Jack Miller . The arrival of Enea Bastianini , like a torpedo, made him force more than necessary and that led him to lose the front gear and have to return to the garage on foot.

Rins has long since lost any chance of fighting for the title, a circumstance that, he says, leads him to force more than Joan Mir does, his partner, who mathematically still has options to be crowned.

The Mallorcan is third in the table, with 167 points in his locker, 99 more than the Barcelonan, who is 13th. Of the 14 tests disputed so far, Rins has not scored in six of them, a very poor background for someone who appeared, in March, with the intention of fighting for the World Cup.

“I had nothing to lose, I was pushing hard to follow Bastianini , and my front end closed. I was riding at full speed, so much so that at some point I said to myself: Alex, breathe”, Rins summed up, very clearly in defining the superiority of the Ducati , not only on this track but in general: “The Ducati are five steps ahead . Joan and I are giving what we can, but he is fighting for the World Cup and I am a little more liberated, so I take more risks”.

One of the mantras that Suzuki members always repeat comes to say that the Hamamatsu brand takes short but solid steps. However, when you consider the gap in potential that seems to exist between the two GSX-RRs and the Yamaha Desmosedici or M1, for example, it’s clear that a change of pace is in order if you’re looking to narrow that gap. . The most obvious proof of this is the rear height adjuster. The first version was introduced in Austria , and both Mir and Rins have been waiting for a slightly lighter evolution of this component, which has not yet arrived. In that sense, the test next Tuesday and Wednesday is anticipated to be crucial with a view to 2022.

“Our preseason starts on Tuesday. I trust that what we prove is a step further. The 2022 engine looks good. Suzuki has to go up two gears, and not only Suzuki, but also us, Joan and I, in the analysis of the parts that they bring us”, settled the #42.