Joan Mir and Marc Márquez were involved at the end of today’s long race in Thailand which ended with a penalty for the Gresini Racing rider, which Mir understood as short and unfair… for being too lenient.
The Spaniard spoke about the Márquez incident and how the opponent ended up punished in one position, but without necessarily talking about the situation but rather about the exchange of positions until giving the position effectively, the Honda rider explained:
– It’s true that it’s not a professional way… The people who are paid for this, it’s impossible they don’t see: if you have a problem with one rider, then another starts to… I was recovering many positions and then at the end of the race you are demoted one position. And what happened to me? I lost three! You understand? Surely it’s not the right way to make decisions.
Mir then left as a suggestion a tip: ‘For me when this happens, and it happened to me many times when I touched the back of someone, it’s a long lap. You do a long lap and you lose the positions that probably made me lose, because when he touched me I was going to the long lap, and this is the logical thing’.