Joan Mir is getting impatient

For four decades and the two titles won by Marco Lucchinelli and Franco Uncini in 1981 and 1982, Suzuki has never again been able to retain a world champion crown. After the success of the two Italians, the Japanese had to wait eleven years to triumph again with Kevin Schwantz, then another seven years to do it again with Kenny Roberts Jr. While the championship MotoGP has just started a long summer break of more than a month before switching in its second half, at the beginning of August, to the Red Bull Ring (Austria), it seems less and less likely that Joan Mir will defy the statistics by managing to retain her crown this year. As for his teammate Alex Rins, victim of repeated falls, he has only scored around thirty points since the opening of the championship in Qatar. If he is in fourth place in the general classification, Mir for his part displays a performance unworthy of a reigning world champion. With only three third places as podium finishes, the Suzuki rider is already 55 points behind the leader fabio quartararo. Fin juin à Assen (Pays-Bas), il avouait à demi-mot s