Honda is working hard to improve this season and Santi Hernández is now working with Joan Mir, a rider with whom the relationship is new especially after many years working closely with Marc Márquez. Even before the start of work in Losail this weekend, the Spaniard talked about the goals he had then, in terms of the agenda, as well as Mir himself.
In a video for Honda Racing, Mir’s new chief mechanic started talking about the relationship with #36 and how it is Honda’s duty to try to acclimate him as best as possible: ‘With Joan we started the season in Valencia to try to understand more or less what he needs and of course, after working for a long time with Marc [Márquez] things are very different. The positive for me is that he is a rider who wants to learn, has an open mind to try things and is faster and we also have to give him our trust, as well as the team structure he is new to everything. I am happy with him and our goal at the moment is to try to be at the top but, of course, we are not in the best scenario’.
Then followed the plan of the structure for what would later be the work:
– La pista en Losail es una en la que las condiciones cambian mucho desde el FP1 hasta el entrenamiento libre por la tarde porque la temperatura de la mañana a la tarde cambia mucho, la humedad y la temperatura de la pista y es en esa área en la que tenemos que trabajar de manera más inteligente porque por la mañana lo que probamos es diferente a la tarde pero tenemos la suerte de haber tenido aquí dos días de prueba, tenemos datos y una base pero aún tenemos dificultades con la tracción trasera, que nos falta, y tenemos que tratar de entender hacia dónde ir para tener un poco más.
