Joan Mir was once ✨again blighted by rear vibration issues in the Solidarity Barcelona MotoGP, as the famous, 30-year-old Repsol꧑-Honda partnership ended without points.

Mir started 13th having narrowly missed out on a Q2 spot in Satur🍬day morning’s Q1, but the vibration issues that have plagued the Spanish rider in recent races returned once more in the race.

“Happened something 🐠very similar as in the previous GPs,” Mir said.

“The difference is that here, for some reason, we have been able to be🌳 more competitive, but the problems that we are having in fast corners in ter🃏ms of vibrations, it destroys all the options that you can have to follow the front group.

“That’s the reality. The bike vibrates in a way that you cannot believe, the bike jump🌠s. It’s some🍒thing that they [Honda engineers] have to understand. They don’t know why.

“So, now the priority is to solve this, becau𝐆se it’s the thing that’s stopping me from being faster — that’s a bit the reality. The Japanese are working on it, but still a long way.”

Mir ultimately crashed out of the Solidarity Gra🔯nd Prix, but he said this was down to pushing too hard in braking.

“The crash was because I tried to do more on the brakes, that’🍸s what I have to do, this is the reality,” he said.

“It shows that I don’🌌t give up, I want to be with those guys. I tried to follow the front group, I made a good start, I catch some nice positions and I fought🎶 back from 13th position.

“But the reality is that the problems in the fast corners —💎 I lose two tenths in every fast corner because I can’t turn, it’s huge. So, 𒅌I crash because I tried to [compensate for] this.”

“Difficult” for Honda to do better in Barcelona

In comparison to Mir, Luca Marini was more upbeat, and simply acknowledged that the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya’s characteristics do not suit the RC2🌳13V in its current form.

“I think in Barcelona it’s difficult to ma💞ke better than this for us,” 🐻Marini said after closing his first season with HRC with a 16th in Barcelona.

“It’s a very tough circuit. For sure, if ꦦwe were able to race i🌠n a different track maybe it could be a better position.”

Honda had at least been able to see an improvement in performance in Barcelon💃a compared to May’s Catalan Grand Prix at the same venue.

“But we have to check the performance, the development of the bike compared to May here, and I think we made a good step forward,” Mari🌞ni saiꦯd.

“For sure it’s still not enough, but the bike is worki🐟ng well, the rid🦋ers are improved, and we are in a very good trend.

“We have to keep🐲 workingꦑ like this and gain another half-a-second, and from here to Sepang I would say.”