After podiums in two of the four Asian MotoGP races in September and October, Joan Mir is targeting more in the final two races of the season.<\/p>\n
Mir took third place in both Japan and Malaysia during MotoGP<\/a>\u2019s 2025 Asian tour, his first podiums since the 2022 season and therefore his first with Honda.<\/p>\n The Spanish rider\u2019s performances came after clear progress was made with the RC213V after the summer break, with Mir\u2019s teammate Luca Marini<\/a> also showing improved form.<\/p>\n For Joan Mir<\/a>, the final two races are now opportunities to add to his rostrum tally.<\/p>\n \u201cWe ended the flyaway races in a great way and I am hungry to return to the podium again,\u201d Mir said ahead of the Portuguese Grand Prix.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cIn the past we have done [okay] in Portimao on the Honda RC213V and the bike and myself are much stronger now.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe goal is to find our base quickly and make the small adjustments during the weekend.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have two races to end the season in the best way possible and show our speed, there are no doubts about the improvements we have made this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cTwo more races for 2025 and then all our attentions move to 2026 and the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Marini \u201ccan hardly compare our past\u201d at Portimao<\/p>\n The unusually large gap between races at Portimao \u2013 which was the first European race of 2024 but is the penultimate race of the season this year \u2013 means that for Luca Marini there is almost no reference this weekend.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Marini\u2019s previous visit to Portugal with the Honda HRC<\/a> team saw him finish 17th, just behind Marc Marquez<\/a> who had crashed on the penultimate lap with Francesco Bagnaia<\/a>.<\/p>\n But the Italian has been a regular top-six and even podium contender in recent races and he feels it is therefore difficult to compare himself now with where he was at the 2024 Portuguese Grand Prix when he was in just his second race with Honda.<\/p>\n \u201cOur goals remain the same for Portugal and Valencia; to fight at the front and show all of our potential,\u201d said Marini.<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2024, Portimao was just my second race with Honda and our situation has evolved a lot so we can hardly compare our performance there in the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cJust two races left in what has been a good 2025, but we still have a couple of things to tick off our list to be really satisfied from the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s enjoy these moments with the team and the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After podiums in two of the four Asian MotoGP races in September and October, Joan Mir is targeting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,9400,9398,9399,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-263164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-honda-hrc","tag-joan-mir","tag-luca-marini","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}