Joan Mir heads into the second day of the Qatar Grand Prix weekend on the back foot after narrowly missing out on🔜 a top t🎃en spot in yesterday’s FP2. 

With FP3 conditions unlikely to provide bette🐻r lap times due to the hotter and less grippier track surface, Mir is likely looking at a Q1 appearance. 

One lap speed remains𝄹 the achilles heel of the Suzuki bike, and Mir was unable to improve enough in the closing stages, with the session becoming a qu𒀰alifying preview.

Mir said after the first day back that there is ‘margin to 🤪improve’, which was hi🐎ghlighted by team-mate Alex Rins who did manage to secure a top ten spot with fifth position. 

For much of the day both Suzuki’s were running inside the top ten, but Mir was di🅠sappointed to have misse♌d out by the slender margin of +0.013s.

"Well, it was a difficult day because we probably missed the last day of testing and today that is what hap🌺pened," added Mir. 

"When you ride as strong in FP2, th𒁏en the small details count a lot. At the mom𝓰ent we didn’t have that last day to work on the details. 

"I think that to🌌morrow we have a margin to improve. We know where we are losing 𒁃time and that’s it. I hope tomorrow will be better."

Mir did acknowledge that the improvements are ♔unlikely to come in the all important th🌠ird practice session though. 

Mir said: "Well FP3 will be impossible to improve🎀, so we will probably have to go through Q1 and tꩲhat is it. 

"This is what happened today, so the best we can do is work for tomorrow and forget about to💞day."