Former MotoGP champion Joan Mir completed within the high six 30 occasions as a Suzuki rider from 2019-2022.
As such, he by no means anticipated to really feel as completely satisfied a couple of seventh place as he did on Sunday in Aragon.
However after an eighth DNF of the season when he was taken out by Jack Miller within the Saturday Dash, Mir admitted it was an enormous aid to say his greatest Honda MotoGP consequence since fifth place in India 2023.
“Lastly, we may end the race with a more-or-less good consequence. I’ve by no means been pleased with a seventh place in my profession, however now I am completely satisfied!” he stated.
“We’re in a really troublesome state of affairs and eventually with the ability to combat with these guys, we now have to be completely satisfied about it.
“We do not have the instruments to do nothing extra. So I’ll go to mattress very calm with myself, figuring out that I gave my 100%.
“We have now to proceed pushing laborious. We’re doing job and we’re within the strategy of coming again, however it’s not sufficient.
“Nonetheless we miss acceleration, high velocity and grip. These are issues we should enhance.
“Then again, I am completely satisfied as a result of on braking, nook velocity and dealing with, we’re in an excellent second. I can combat and that’s very optimistic.
“However to do one thing extra we should enhance the highest velocity, the ability of the bike and the grip.
“If not will probably be troublesome to make races in a greater place than seventh, if nothing occurs [ahead] like as we speak.”
Joan Mir, 2025 Aragon MotoGP
The straight-line weak spot was illustrated by Mir being ranked forward of solely Honda rookie Somkiat Chantra and Aprilia stand-in Lorenzo Savadori on the highest velocity charts at Aragon.
“Once you overtake, you’re tremendous tense, pondering that on the straight they may overtake you again!” he admitted.
“The aid, after one lap with out being overtaken, is huge.
“In apply, our tempo alone is generally excellent. It is acceptable. Near the highest 5.
“However racing is one other story.
“You will have quite a lot of bikes round and you must combat with them and may’t all the time discover a clear monitor.
“For instance, Yamaha prior to now, in the event that they began [at the front], they knew that they had the tempo in the event that they have been alone.
“We do not begin on pole place and we’re not the quickest on monitor, in order that complicates slightly bit the state of affairs.”
With Mir’s team-mate Luca Marini absent on account of harm, and LCR’s Johann Zarco crashing, Chanta was the one different Honda finisher, in sixteenth.
