Joan Mir’s disastrous COTA MotoGP weekend ended ꦏwith a second fall in as many races.

The Spaniard was not 🐼the only Honda rider who faced such troubles as Takaaki Nakagami also crashed out o🐼f the sprint and grand prix. 

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Johꦍann Zarco did the same during the sprint, before retiring from the grand prix with vibration issues.

Speaking after the race, Mir said: “A tough end to a tough weekend. We didn’t start theಞ race itself super well so we were quite far behind but the🌄n I found my pace and I was able to get ahead of the other Honda riders.

“I started closing in on the group ahea♉d but unfortunately, I lost the ꧅rear at turn six and crashed.

“Not much more to 💎add. Everyone is working, we keep trying and pick ourselves up to do it all again at the next race.”

Lu🌊ca Marini was the sole H꧋onda rider to finish both races, and although his pace compared to the rest of the grid and team-mate Mir improved, the Italian was again last.

“I tried my best and fought for the last p🧔oint hard. It was good to finish the race to get more data to the engineers,” added Marini.

“At this moment we💖 are not in the correct place, and I think this is an imp𒅌ortant weekend for us.

“Now we can compare the data to this weekend a𝄹nd before and I hope that it can help us to keep improving. I think the direction is quite clear, we just need time.”

At the tim𝓀e of his vibration issues, Zarco was th🌞e top Honda rider before pulling into pit lane.

Zarco said: “Already on the first lap, I felt so♈me vibrations on the rear side of the bike, and although I tried my best, the situation worsened, and I started losing time, so I had to retire.

“We must understand what happened and see how to improve for the next race.꧅"