MotoGP Le Mans: Joan Mir confirms talks with Repsol Honda have begun

After the shock, but expected confir🔯mation from Suzuki that they intend to leave the MotoGP world champi❀onship at the end of this season, Mir has been left without a seat as it stands.
However, that’s likely to change in the coming weeks as talks between his manager aღnd several teams have already begun.
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The 2020 world champion has been in good form so far this season, and despite being without a win, as i꧋s Suzuki team-mate Alex Rins, both riders are very much in the title fight.
Preliminary discussions with MotoGP teams have already started according to Mir
Mir, who confirmed talks with Suzuki were at an advanced stage before the Japanese manufacturer dropped its bombshell news to riders and team members after the Jerez test, told MotoGP.com that Honda is now a realistic🍌 option.
"From Jerez, we were officially on the market," added Mir. "We were in negotiations with Suzuki before everything that happened. Now♒, for sure, my manager will have more🥂 work than he expected. He is speaking with Honda, with different manufacturers, to try to fix my future. But it’s not easy.
"Am I in a hurry? No, not especially. If you ask every rider i🌳n the paddock, they’ll say that they’d prefer to have their fဣuture fixed than not.
"Everyone is the same on that. As soon as we have something it will be better for🌟 me, for everyone."
With interest very much mutual be🦄tween Mir and Repsol Honda, a move to join Marc Marquez would result in fellow Spaniard Pol Espargaro being dr🌳opped.
After Jerez, a report in Italian media suggested Espargaro had already been told by Honda that he would be let g💖o. 🌄;

But Espargaro has since hit back by calling it 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:‘fake news’ and that he’s instead remained in dialogue with Honda🐲 as well as other teams r✤egarding his future.
"We are in a wor♑ld where we are more and more surrounded by fake news," Espargaro said.
"I have a manager who is talking with different teams♌, as well as Honda [about next year]."
Other options for Mir coulꩲd be a switch to Yamaha, albeit Franco Morbidelli would have to be negotiated out of his current deal which runs until the end of 2023, thus making it unlikely, while Aprilia remains an option too.
But with that said, Honda appears to be Mir’s #1 option and vice-versa for the♎ most successful ⛄brand in MotoGP.
Wherever Mir ends up he’s unlikely to have the same team ar👍ound him as many of the Suzuki staff will be looking for jobs throughout th🧸e paddock.
The one-time premier class race winner said it would be ‘great’ to꧟ have his entire team follow him, but that a lot of the decisions will be condi💃tioned by where he ultimately ends up.

"For sure, if I can have my team, it wou✃ld be great," continued Mir. "But we also have to consider where I will go, what the conditions will be. There are the people already at the team I’ll go to, if they want to leave or if they want to stay. There are many things."
Unlike Mir, Rins confirmed no tal꧂ks have taken place with other teams as it stands, although he expects𝐆 that to change this weekend in Le Mans.
Rins was second fastest during FP1, while 🗹Mir finished sixth - +0ℱ.171s down on P. Espargaro.