The 2020 world champion signed a two-year deal with Honda to affix its manufacturing unit squad from this season after Suzuki elected to quit the championship on the finish of 2022.
Mir’s season to this point has been depressing, with the Spaniard scoring simply 5 factors in whole and hasn’t seen a chequered flag on a Sunday for the reason that opening spherical of the marketing campaign in Portugal – when he completed eleventh.
Since then, Mir’s season has been characterised by crashes and harm, the Honda rider lacking the Argentina GP, Italian GP and the complete Germany and Dutch rounds.
Requested about feedback he made in an interview with DAZN, by which he spoke about ideas of retirement, Mir stated on Thursday on the Austrian GP: “I’m crossing a tricky time.
“I’m in a second that I settle for the state of affairs that I’m. Earlier than I didn’t wish to settle for it, and mentally that is tougher since you need one factor; you can’t get it and it’s troublesome to simply accept it.
“Now I settle for it, I do know the state of affairs that I’m in and I wish to flip issues round.
“It’s true that in a single second I believed critically to cease, however not as a result of I wished to go to a different bike.
“I wished to cease as a result of mentally I used to be collapsed. Now I’m not in that state of affairs. Now I’m in a unique state of affairs.
“I do know that if I cease that sooner or later I might remorse this loads. So, that is the primary factor.
“You say ‘I wish to cease’, as a result of I feel it occurs generally that you’re not having a superb time together with your job, you may have some discussions with folks, you may have a foul month and also you simply wish to cease.
“However you say ‘if I go away from right here, I’ll remorse it sooner or later’. I used to be in that state of affairs, however then I believed I wished to maintain making an attempt.”
Joan Mir, Repsol Honda Workforce
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Mir famous that he had an identical thought in 2019 when he crashed closely throughout a post-race take a look at at Brno, however this shortly disappeared.
“Sure, after I had the large harm in Brno, my first 12 months,” he added when requested if he’d thought of retiring earlier than.
“When you may have a foul time and after such a foul crash, you ask your self numerous issues – if it’s price it. So, that occurred additionally that point. However in someday, I used to be good, I used to be again.”