2023-11-30 19:11:47
In addition to thoroughly testing the first version of the 2024 Honda RC213V with good feelings, Joan Mir also debuted a new technical team on his side of the pit during the last MotoGP test held at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit in Valencia, a change of technical staff with which Mir has ended up very happy, highlighting the connection that has existed with Santi Hernández from minute one.
The Spaniard has inherited the entire human team that has accompanied Marc Márquez during the last 11 seasons, made up of people like Jordi Castellà, Roberto Clerici, Carlos Liñán or Santi Hernández himself, who after having worked alongside figures such as Valentino Rossi, Álex Crivillé or Marc himself, will now add the name of the MotoGP world champion in 2020 and Moto3 in 2017, Joan Mir.
The Spaniard was asked about Hernández during the press conference he gave at the end of the Valencia test; Mir, perhaps out of respect for his former technical boss Giacomo Guidotti -now at Luca Marini’s side-, chose to avoid the question of whether the change of technical staff had been his initiative: “Did I ask for it? I’m not going to give you that answer. The opportunity arose and I didn’t think about it.”“, he snapped at the Balearic.
After a day of work with Hernández and Marc Márquez’s former staff, Mir said he was “very happy with the move I have made. Today I saw a harmony in the box that I really liked.. “I enjoyed doing the test, I liked how the team worked.”
The day was “very good” in the words of the 26-year-old pilot, who said he was “very happy with the decision” to start working with Santi Hernández, recognizing “having really enjoyed the time I spent in the box with him, Their working method is slightly different, but yes, I enjoyed it“.
Alberto Puig also spoke in Valencia about this unexpected change within the Repsol Honda Team garage; As the skipper of the Japanese team told DAZN, “It makes sense that the Spanish crew chief was with a Spanish driver, and the Italian, with an Italian“, hence the move of Santi Hernández to Joan Mir, letting Marini join Honda alongside Guidotti. “While everyone understands each other in Italian, English or Spanish, you always understand more with someone of your own nationality than with others. This has been the reason,” stated the former Catalan pilot.
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MotoGP will now take a two-month break before resuming its activity in Sepang, where a three-day shakedown will first take place (February 1-3) in which the testers from each factory will take part, the rookies (Pedro Acosta, the only one) and the two factories with category D concessions, Yamaha and Honda, who will be able to participate in these three days of training with their official riders before the test. IRTA that will start on this same track from February 6 to 8.
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