None of the moves are officially confirmed yet, bar Mir\u2019s departure, although his destination is not yet official.<\/p>\n
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Joan Mir, 2026 Catalan MotoGP.<\/p>\n
\u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n
The Spaniard, who won the 2020 MotoGP<\/a> title with Suzuki, says the decision to leave was his and that it was made at his home grand prix at Jerez in April.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cFor sure I know my capabilities in terms of riding and I know what I can do with this bike,\u201d said Joan Mir when asked in the post-race press conference in Catalunya whether he was proud to have finished second on the weekend he confirmed he would be leaving Honda.<\/p>\n \u201cIn Jerez I decided that I wanted to move on from here [Honda] and soon you will know where I will go.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the end, now we have to enjoy this podium and it doesn\u2019t matter the results of this season, the decision at the end is taken and that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n Joan Mir, 2026 Catalunya MotoGP.<\/p>\n \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n Mir\u2019s second place in Catalunya was revoked post-race via a tyre pressure penalty. The 16-second penalty dropped the Spaniard down the order to 13th and promoted Francesco Bagnaia<\/a> to the podium instead, the Italian taking a first top-three position in a grand prix for the Ducati Lenovo Team<\/a> since he and Marc Marquez<\/a> both finished on the rostrum in Japan last October.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n It also meant Honda lost its first podium of 2026, the last one for the Japanese factory coming in Sepang last year when Mir finished third behind Alex Marquez<\/a> and Pedro Acosta<\/a>.<\/p>\n Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joan Mir confirmed over the Catalan MotoGP weekend (15\u201317 May) that he will be leaving the factory Honda…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,245659,9398,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-685672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-honda-hrc-motogp","tag-joan-mir","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685672","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=685672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Joan](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gng_1314520_hires_1600x900.jpg\")
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