After experiencing two of their worst seasons in MotoGP in 2023 and 2024, Joan Mir believes Honda has made progress with its RC213V in 2025.
The Spaniard, who this 12 months enters his third season with HRC, thinks that the RC213V is nearer to the entrance now than it was final 12 months after he completed the penultimate day of MotoGP preseason testing at Buriram in eleventh place, and his Honda HRC Castrol teammate Luca Marini was sixth.
“Higher than anticipated? No,” the Honda HRC Castrol rider stated. “But it surely’s higher. I really feel that we’ve got a greater efficiency than final 12 months.
“We’re nearer to the nice tempo and we’re nearer to the nice lap instances.
“So, I’ll say ‘sure’, we’re extra ready this 12 months than final 12 months – most likely not sufficient, however we made some enhancements: the bike is extra rideable, right now we improved the braking space, and in addition it was somewhat little bit of a troublesome day as a result of we had some technical issues within the morning, then on account of this we needed to change the plan and that most likely implies that tomorrow we are going to strive extra issues than what we had within the plan.
“However, anyway, it’s okay, this stuff can occur, and I believe that tomorrow we are going to do one other step ahead, I believe we’ve got margin.”
Joan Mir explains Romano Albesiano affect
Increasing on the issues he had within the morning, Mir stated that it was to do with the journey top gadget.
“We had some technical issues on the rear [ride height] gadget that it was not working completely, however then we solved it,” he stated.
“It was a technical challenge that delayed our programme, however on the finish I believe it was okay.”
One of many key modifications at Honda for 2025 is the arrival of Romano Albesiano from Aprilia to take up the position of technical director at HRC.
Mir stated was requested if there had been a change within the working technique that he had seen since Albesiano’s arrival on the finish of final 12 months.
He stated: “I believe that the setting contained in the storage is analogous – I work with my crew. But it surely’s true that we see some enchancment on the bike that’s the proof that you are able to do it.
“If you’re making the issues accurately, then we are going to enhance our efficiency on the bike and the truth is that in a short while we improved the efficiency.
“Now I’m driving a motorcycle that kind of you may journey it, you may journey comfortably. It’s true that we’re nonetheless dropping in acceleration and high velocity so much, we’ve got vibration so much, however we enhance right now the braking. We’re making some steps ahead.
