Joan MirMotoGP world champion in 2020, acknowledged at the end of the second day of MotoGP practice at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia that “two days are not enough and we have to go to Mandalika, but I think we have understood many things”.
The Majorcan rider pointed out that for him “it has been possible to take a step forward from one day to the next and I am strong on used tires and that is the first step”.
“The temperature was quite a bit lower than yesterday and we thought that the soft front tire could give me something more, but I made the first start and I made two mistakes. I crashed twice and I decided to go in without being able to do a lap as I should have “, lament Joan Mir about.
“When I stopped, I still had the other set of tyres, because there were two for today, and we left the same front one, because it had a good feeling, but it was very difficult to manage because the front part of the bike moved a lot and I couldn’t push under braking,” continued look.
“Then we put on a hard front tire with the same rear tire from the ‘time attack’ and we made the time, so there was some room to go down. I’m satisfied. We’re good at the pace. The bike is fast, because Alex (Rins) has also rolled fast. I don’t think the time attack is a big problem for us right now. We are improving it,” said the Suzuki driver.
“The engine, at low power, is among the best. The character is quite similar and the power delivery is also very similar,” he said. Joan look about the new Suzuki engine.
Now all the MotoGP riders go to the new Mandalika circuit in Indonesia, so Joan look He pointed out that “the first two days will be to learn the circuit. We have to continue testing aerodynamic issues and some parts of the chassis, to find the right combination of chassis and swingarm. And, above all, go to another circuit and test the things that I liked them more. It’s important to see that this also works on other circuits.”