{"id":719550,"date":"2026-06-06T19:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719550\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T19:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T19:10:10","slug":"joan-mir-brands-balaton-motogp-sprint-very-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719550\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Mir brands Balaton MotoGP Sprint \u201cvery boring\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Mir branded Saturday&#8217;s Balaton Park MotoGP Sprint as \u201cboring\u201d after vibration problems left him unable to attack.<\/p>\n<p>Overtaking opportunities were already limited around the tight Hungarian circuit, with the top three positions unchanged from Turn 1 to the chequered flag,<\/p>\n<p>Starting 13th on the grid, Mir spent most of the race trapped behind rivals, running wide whenever he tried to overtake.<\/p>\n<p>Mir eventually took the chequered flag in 15th, in the middle of a six-rider group led by Toprak Razgatlioglu.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gng_1323087_hires_1600x900.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Joan Mir, 2026 Hungarian MotoGP. \" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Joan Mir, 2026 Hungarian MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We saw a very boring race&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe start was good, but then Brad [Binder] decided to brake\u2026 and could not stop, so I lost the opportunity to overtake,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/911973\/joan-mir\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mir<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made up a couple of positions, but then I was not able to stop the bike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd here, if you are not able to stop the bike, you cannot overtake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw a very boring race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve been bored also, because I don&#8217;t have the chance to attack.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just stay behind because I cannot ride how I want. It was a tough sprint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gng_1323063_hires_1600x900.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Jack Miller, Joan Mir, 2026 Hungarian MotoGP. \" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Jack Miller, Joan Mir, 2026 Hungarian MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP <\/a>champion said his RCV felt very different to the bike that he took to second place at the chequered flag in Catalunya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally we have vibrations where we have a lot of grip, but in this case we don&#8217;t have grip and we have a lot of vibrations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut different vibrations, because it&#8217;s in braking. And I cannot brake how I want.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen the grip is something that we don&#8217;t have and we will not have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that there&#8217;s a big room for improvement because how I was riding today, I have big problems with the bike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the bike that I made the first races of the year, and two races ago I was on the podium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we have to understand, really, what is happening to be able to get back a good feeling and be able to enjoy riding. That actually I&#8217;m not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Diogo Moreira was the leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/repsol-honda-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Honda<\/a> rider in seventh with Mir\u2019s team-mate Luca Marini in twelfth.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joan Mir branded Saturday&#8217;s Balaton Park MotoGP Sprint as \u201cboring\u201d after vibration problems left him unable to attack.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719551,"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-719550","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\/719550","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=719550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}