Interview with Joan Mir: "So much risk should serve to live as I want"

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"I did not suspect it at all. The news was hard, very 'heavy'. First they told us and then the rest of the team in a meeting for which we stayed. It was a downer. The first thing I thought of it

was in the workers", comments

on the news that has shaken the MotoGP World Championship: Suzuki, his brand, lowers the blind.

At the end of this season it will no longer exist and, therefore, right now Mir is looking for accommodation for next year.

The Japanese directors managed the decision in the worst of ways, without warning anyone -not even the team leaders-, with the renewal of Mir himself almost closed and despite this the MotoGP champion in 2020 is not exalted.

"If they decided so quickly it was for some big reason," he justifies.

, who had just thrown him to the ground: this is the character of Mir.

It seems that he never breaks a plate. I also have character, huh.

I get angry if I can't give 100% in the race, if we as a team haven't done a good job.

It annoyed me a lot, for example, last year in Brno when

, because the circumstances were different from the accident with Miller.

In any case, in MotoGP his tone is valued little. Yes, but it's normal.

The anger sells more, is more morbid and gives more play than two pilots making peace. In the same sense, it has never been lavished on social networks, but it is shown less and less.

Just four strictly professional things. It's not something I planned, but it is.

I highly value my time, my privacy, my family.

Other pilots like to expose everything they do and gain more followers with it than with their results.

Not me.

I guess it's also my character.

Who follows me does it for what I do with the bike and that's it.

For a family guy, with so many trips... Is it hard to have a place to call home? Yes, a lot, that's why I value time at home.

We travel a lot and this year more than ever.

I was talking about it today with a mechanic: we have had six races and it seems that we have had half a season.

Qatar, Indonesia, Argentina, the United States... we don't stop.

That's why when a race ends, what I want is to get home, leave the phone in a corner and go for a walk, to shop, to the movies.

Make a normal life with mine. A few months ago he invested in a Tatel chain restaurant.

Are you beginning to think where to take advantage of the money earned? I'm interested, I'm interested.

I really like to inform myself, I have made some real estate investment and I think it is important for my future.

In my family they already did it like this: what was earned, was invested.

I am clear that the sports career only lasts a few years and that in the end all the risk I take has to serve to live as I want when I retire.

If we talk about money,

Are you worried about your future in MotoGP without Suzuki? I'm in the market, that's the reality.

Thank God I have offers.

I was about to sign [with Suzuki] and now my manager has a job.

Logically I would like to have everything fixed as soon as possible.

With what motivation will you run this year knowing that the team is not going to continue? It is difficult to manage.

In some way, the motivation is to finish as well as possible, to see if we can fight for the title.

It could be that there is a downturn in the team, it would be normal, although I think we all want to finish this very special project well. He has been claiming the value of his 2020 title for a long time, despite the few races due to covid and the absence of

Logically I would like to have everything fixed as soon as possible.

With what motivation will you run this year knowing that the team is not going to continue? It is difficult to manage.

In some way, the motivation is to finish as well as possible, to see if we can fight for the title.

It could be that there is a downturn in the team, it would be normal, although I think we all want to finish this very special project well. He has been claiming the value of his 2020 title for a long time, despite the few races due to covid and the absence of

Logically I would like to have everything fixed as soon as possible.

With what motivation will you run this year knowing that the team is not going to continue? It is difficult to manage.

In some way, the motivation is to finish as well as possible, to see if we can fight for the title.

It could be that there is a downturn in the team, it would be normal, although I think we all want to finish this very special project well. He has been claiming the value of his 2020 title for a long time, despite the few races due to covid and the absence of

, but... If that was your only MotoGP World Championship, would you end up satisfied with your career? No.

Because I know that I am capable of winning more and because it would be great to win in a normal year.

But the 2020 World Cup has a lot of value for me.

I understand the question, but it is a title that was won by intelligence, by regularity, by attacking when it had to be won.

It was a very unusual year, but every time I think about it I give it more credit, not less.

It was a World Cup that was won with just one victory, but with many podiums.

Somehow, something historical.

If it happens again they will say that you win 'a lo Mir'.

If it means winning consistently, that's fine with me.

When talking about my World Cup, things are valued, but it is never said that I won with a Suzuki, that I had not won for 20 years, for example.

I dislike it because I am not given credit.

I'm 24 years old,

At the moment I have two World Championships [he won in Moto3 in 2017] and I keep fighting for more.

I hope that in the future it will be valued differently.

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