Suzukis Mir laments painful mentally Le Mans MotoGP crash

The 2020 world champion was latter in on the Ducati of Jack Miller for third at the mid-point of the Le Mans race having wrenched yonder slightly from the Aprilia of Aleix Espargaro behind.

But on lap 15 of 27 Mir crashed out at the final corner, joining team-mate Alex Rins in early retirement in Suzuki’s first race weekend since its shock visualization to quit MotoGP at the end of 2022.

Mir says the crash was mentally difficult to take having been worldly-wise to turn virtually his situation pursuit a difficult Saturday at Le Mans, in which he was forced to go through Q1 “unexpectedly”.

“The crash has been painful mentally, considering without a difficult Saturday, FP3, I had to go through Q1 unexpectedly, I expected increasingly on Saturday,” Mir explained.

“We reverted the velocipede a bit, I was worldly-wise to up the speed then to qualify increasingly or less good.

“The start was great, I went out with the medium front tyre which was the tyre that in FP2 I crashed badly.

“Straight yonder I felt good with that tyre, was good for us. I was worldly-wise to be really unvarying on the lap times.

“I made a mistake, I went wide, the straight yonder I was recovering the loftiness to the top riders again.

“Every time I was getting closer, it’s true that overdue the Ducatis it’s unchangingly difficult to stop the bike.

“I didn’t manage in a good way, I made a mistake, a mix of things.

“One thing was this one, flipside thing was I tried to restriction too much, too late, and then I had to trail the brakes increasingly than normal and when I released the brakes I lost the front.”

Joan Mir, Team Suzuki MotoGP, crash

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Mir moreover admits he’s not currently a championship challenger as he has slid 46 points roaming of Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo – who was a disappointed fourth on Sunday – but feels the 2022 Suzuki is capable of a title tilt.

“It has been a first part of a season that I finger I have the potential, the velocipede works,” Mir added.

“We are showing flashes of performance, but I cannot put it perfectly to make the results that we want.

“I am confident these results will get better. I’m sure once we are on the podium we have to stay there considering now we are not fighting for the championship. We are just feeling the way.”

Team-mate Rins’ Le Mans race ended in terrifying malleate on lap three when he was running in third, without he crashed at the Dunlop machinations having run through the gravel trap.

Rins says he was sucked into the fast first corner by the slipstream of Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia, which led to him tucking the front and forcing him to sit up to run through the gravel where he ultimately tumbled as he tried to re-join the circuit.

Alex Rins, Team Suzuki MotoGP

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“Was scary, sincerely. I mean, it was so scary,” Rins said.

“We did the most difficult thing, which was to recover positions. We did a unconfined start, unconfined first lap. Then I was third overdue Pecco, going good, with no stress riding well.

“Then when I arrived into the first corner overdue him, I braked at exactly the same point as the lap surpassing and his slipstream [sucked me in]. And then when I touched the restriction I lose the front.

“Then I had to go to the gravel and in the gravel it’s difficult to manage considering in that point you need to tenancy the velocipede at 200kmh, trying to squint at the where the riders are and I was trying to stave the crash with Miller.

“When I went out of the gravel to re-join the race, I exited with a little bit of wile and then I lose tenancy of the bike.”