May 13, 2022 - 20:45
By msn.com

After Suzuki Leaves MotoGP, Where Will Joan Mir And Alex Rins Go?

With Suzuki officially confirming that it’s in talks with Dorna to exit MotoGP at the end of 2022, a number of questions arise—mainly to do with what all the people involved in the team will do next year. While professional racing involves a lot of musical chairs, and sudden shifts in team circumstances aren’t completely unheard of, they’re also not exactly common—and of course, everyone in the paddock probably hopes it won’t happen to them.

Where will 2020 MotoGP champion Joan Mir end up? Alex Rins hasn’t won a championship yet, but he’s been winning races lately—and that’s certainly no small thing. Although they’re the faces of the team and the talented riders who bring home those all-important results in each race, MotoGP is also a team sport. As all racers do, both Mir and Rins credit the strength of all the people on their team who have helped hone these bikes to bring such great performances. What happens to those people at the end of 2022?

"From Jerez, we were officially on the market,” Joan Mir said in a statement. “We were in negotiations with Suzuki before everything that’s happened. 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.”

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"Am I in a hurry? No, not especially. If you ask every 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 as we have something it will be better for me, for everyone,” he added.

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