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

After t🍃he shock, but expected confirmation from Suzuki that they intend to leave the MotoGP world🔯 championship at the end of this season, Mir has been left without a seat as it stands.
However, 𒊎that’s likely to change in the coming weeks as talks between his manager and 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 without๊ a ▨win, as is 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 t🍃o riders and team members after th🔴e Jerez test, told MotoGP.com that Honda is now a realistic option.
"From Jerez, we were officially on t☂he market," added Mir. "We were in negotiations with Suzuki before everything that ha𝓀ppened. 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 hu🦂rry? No, not especially. If you ask everᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚy rider in the paddock, they’ll say that they’d prefer to have their future fixed than not.
"Everyone is the same on that. As soon ꩲas we have something it will be better for ൩me, for everyone."
With interest very much mutual between Mir and Reps🐻ol Honda, a move to join Marc Marquez would result in fellow Spanꦗiard Pol Espargaro being dropped.
After Jerezꦛ, a report in Italian media sugg🦩ested Espargaro had already been told by Honda that he would be let go.

But Espargaro has since hit back by calling it 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:‘fake news’ and that he’s instead remained in ไdialogue with Honda as well as other teams regarding his future.
"We are 𒁏in a world where we are more and more surrounded by fake news," Espargaro said.
"I have a mana🍷ger who is talking w🐭ith different teams, as well as Honda [about next year]."
Other options for Mir could 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 succℱessful brand in Moto🐓GP.
Wherever Mir ends up he’s unlikely to have the same team around him as many of the Suzuki staff will be looking for j൲obs throughout the paddock.
The one-time premier class race winner said it would be ‘great’ to have his enti🎃re team follow him, but that a lot of the decisions will be conditioned by where he ultimately ends up.

"For sure, if I can have my team, it would 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 ar♍e many things."
Unlike Mirﷺ, Rins confirmed no talks have taken place with other teams as it stands, althoug✤h he expects that to change this weekend in Le Mans.
Rins was second fastest🍎 during FP1, while Mir finished sixth - +ܫ0.171s down on P. Espargaro.