Earlier, Mir had been involved in contact with Bastianini after the Tech3 KTM rider rejoined the racing line following a mistake at Turn 1.<\/p>\n
Both riders stayed upright, with Bastianini was later handed a long-lap penalty for the incident.<\/p>\n
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Joan Mir, 2026 Hungarian MotoGP.<\/p>\n
\u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe foot peg was loose\u201d<\/p>\n
Mir revealed the impact caused damage to his RCV and suspects it may have played a role in his later crash.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was quite damaged,\u201d Mir said of his bike after the Bastianini contact.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I crashed for that reason, because the foot peg was loose. We have to see, because the crash was quite strange.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was behind Diogo [Moreira] without doing anything special, because I was having problems with the front pressure.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had the alarm that the pressure was very high and this was making an attack on the other riders impossible.<\/p>\n
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\u201cSo I was waiting a bit for a mistake by Diogo and Jack.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I had something more, but that crash was unfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Joan Mir, 2026 Hungarian MotoGP.<\/p>\n
\u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n
Honda \u201cremoved some question marks\u201d in Hungary<\/p>\n
Mir acknowledged that the race presented a missed chance after several front-runners were eliminated in a Turn 1 accident triggered by Jorge Martin.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday was a good opportunity to score points; due to what happened at the start, there were a lot of fast guys that could not complete the first lap.<\/p>\n
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\u201cSo it was an opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn’t take the opportunity, but we removed some question marks during this weekend for the setup.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were using a setup from the past in today’s race and I was able to ride again in a better way. So that is the only positive this weekend,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe tried a different setup in the front fork for Barcelona, but Barcelona is a specific track, the temperature, everything, and there it was working well.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen we made Mugello and here. And today we went back to the standard one and it was by far better.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI could attack more the front as I want.\u201d<\/p>\n
Team-mate Luca Marini finished fifth as the leading Honda rider, while LCR rookie Diogo Moreira secured sixth place.<\/p>\n
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