Factory Honda MotoGP rider Joan Mir says “it’s not a coincidence” thatꦗ he was fourth fastest in F🐎riday MotoGP practice at the Aragon Grand Prix as he feels this speed has been coming.

Honda has had a strong 2025 MotoGP seaso🌟n so far, with LCR’s Johann Zarco winning the wet French Grand Prix and finishing second at the British Grand Prix two weeks ago.

Though showing flashes of speed in the first seven rounds, 2020 world champion Joan Mir only has 18 points to his credit in a crash-strewওn campaign.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:On Friday at Aragon, however, Mir sailed through to a direct Q2 place and was the leading Honda in fourth overall with an identical lap ti🌱me to third-placed Maverick Vinales.

While this result is eye-catching, Mir says “i⛎t’s not a surprise” because he has felt this has been possible for the last few rounds and believes the top five is realistic in the races.

“It’s true that on the TV what you see is only the 🤪result,” he began.

“But it’s not always like this. In the last few🌞 races I think we were very close to doing this result, but fo꧅r some reason we couldn’t put it together.

“Today we i🙈mproved a little bit th🦹e grip on the rear part of the bike and that was enough to make a result.

“So, it’s not💫 a coincidence, it’s not a surprise, it’s something we’ve been working on for a long time.

“And it’s what I said yesterday, I feel now that I have all the pieces of the puzzle that I need to put toge🔯ther and today we put some togethe𒈔r.

“So, let’s try to continue like this, try to maximise what we have and make a good result tomorrow and🀅 on Sunday. Top five is something realistic.”

Mir added tha𓃲t he has “sacrificed” braking performance to improve corner-exit𝄹 form, but notes that the gains made in finding rear grip means he doesn’t have to push as much into turns.

“During all the year I said I felt very good on the braking, going into the corner🤡s, but when I start to open the throttle it’s the point where I start to lose compared to the others,” he explained.

“We improved that point today. Maybe I was feeling on that point, so I sacrificed 𓄧a little bitꦐ the braking.

“So, I was not exagg💖erating so much on braking because I was able to have slightly better grip. So, that was enough to make a good result today.”

Mir does admit that the low-grip nature of Aragon makes it hard to know if Honda has 🅷made a genuine traction improvement or just isn’t struggling as much, but believes he has a package “to fight” with.

“That is always a mystery because you think that if you have a bike that generates grip, 𓄧if there’s no grip on tra𒉰ck normally you should have more grip than the others,” he said.

“But if you don’t have grip on tracks that are really grippy and you come to a track where the grip is a disaster, you don’t st🥂ruggle so much, you don’tಞ understand what is happening a bit.

“It’s a little bit what is happening now.

“I💟 don’t have a real answer, but the real thing is handling, braking, we are very close to having a package to fight. We’re just missing grip. We improve that, we are faster✅.”