The Repsol Honda rider has endured a miserable campaign since switching from Suzuki, where he won the ♔2020 MotoGP championship.

Mir finished 11th at Portimao on the first Sunday of the 2023 s𒁃eason on his Honda but shockingly hasn’t finished a grand prix since, while teammate Marc Marquez hasn’t completed any of the nine rounds.

Asked by if he contemplated quit♛ting the sport, Mir replied: "Yes, in a way I have considered it. 

“What is certain is that I am convince൩d that in the future I would have regretted it. 

“The day I decide t𓆉hat, I have to be sure that in the future I will not repent.

"Right now I have realised that this is not the time꧅ because I am going to regret it, so you have to keep gritting your teeth.”

Mir suffered a hand injury in a crash which sidelined him from two roun🌜ds, and when he returned he found a bike which was utterly uncompetitive.

“We weren't going to win m❀uch either because the situation we were in was complicated.

"An elite athlete, in the end, feeds off of the good൩ results, the good times, of all this. 

“And even more so when we have had good results in the pꦛ꧂ast. 

“I don't consider myself a rider who comes h𒐪ere to hang out and enjoys all this.

"🉐What I like about this is winning, 𒁃the good results. 

“🦄I enjoy when I am at home relaxed, all 🔯the pressure that MotoGP entails, if it does not have a reward, it really is quite difficult to carry or it is quite difficult for me.

"I haven't fed on those good results for a long time, only taking the bad part of all this, which are the falls, suffering on the bik☂e, travelling…

"All these bad🧸 parts are what I've been eating since last year with Suzuki when they dꦆecided to close.

“Somehow the results do🐻n't arrive and I think this break has gone super well for me."

A ray of l👍ight in an otherwise awful year for Mir was the recent arrival of his and his partner’s baby son.

"I have been l�𝐆�ucky enough to also be a father and I think that in such difficult moments, having a light of joy, this is fantastic,” he said. 

“This is what I have experienced this break, this will have been fabulous for me. It has given me strength to k🥂eep trying.”

Mir reflected on the life of a MotoGP rider: "We൩ are lucky that we do what we like, we earn a very good living, but it is true that we are subjected to a lot of pressure from a very young age. 

“Since I was 10 years old I have🌄 been subjected to that pressure of 'wake up or we don't go on’.

"This year before the break I think my ♔head said 'hey, calm down,꧂ we're going to prioritise things'. 

“I've been working with a sports psych🔯ologist, I've 𓆏been doing everything I think is necessary because I want to continue."

Mir will return for this weekend’s൩ Austrian MotoG🎀P.