Joan Mir: ‘It’s hard to share the box with Mark’

Joan Mir (Repsol Honda) highlighted the following challenges on Tuesday. He shares a team with eight-time motorcycle world champion Marc Márquez.

“Share marks and boxes This is a big challenge, but it’s also a very positive thing. Because you are measuring yourself against the best drivers on the grid. That way you can push and get something out of yourself to improve your performance,” Mir said in a statement released by the team.

The 2020 MotoGP world champion and former Suzuki rider aims to be “fast and fight for the podium” this season, even though he knows he’s arriving at the Golden Wing factory in “complicated times”.

“You should set realistic goals. Initially, adapting to the bike is important in order to feel comfortable and be able to speed up this adaptation process.” Mill added:

Likewise, Majorcan pilots After the first test with the Repsol Honda team in training in Valencia, he was optimistic.

“The first feeling at the Valencia test with the Repsol Honda team was very good. Obviously when you change teams you have to get to know all the people and adapt to the new dynamics. I think I need to get used to it, but I like the way I work,” he confessed.

Mir faces this new phase “in a definitive way”, with the conviction that it is “a moment when everything goes very well, or not at all.”

“Reaching the most successful team of all time is a big challenge. Looking at this team’s past and history gives me goosebumps.It’s a great honor to be a part of that and I really want to do that job,” he concluded.