Alberto Puig has no doubts: in 2024 Joan Mir will be able to finally demonstrate his potential as a rider, now in command of the Honda RC213V. According to the team manager, the team has improved enough to allow the 2020 champion to excel once again.
Contrary to Luca Marini, new to the team, Honda already knows Mir more deeply due to his previous years’ history, and now, with some crucial improvements, the Japanese team’s Team Manager believes there will be changes that will allow his talent to “unlock”:
– We don’t have to discover Joan, he is a two-time world champion. He had many difficulties because he probably wasn’t matching with the bike and now we have improved in some areas that are important to him, in the connection between the engine and the rider, which is better for him, we have more power and he will be able to demonstrate his real potential. We don’t have any question marks about him, we just have to solve these things and see how things happen.
Remember that Mir finished the year 2023 – his first with Honda – in 22nd place with 26 points. Marc Márquez, his teammate at the time, was 14th and the best of the manufacturer with 96.