The 2024 MotoGP season should be a little more positive for Sling after the good sensations during the Valencia tests. But these expectations once again proved to be in vain after two weekends of racing and only eight points. The Japanese brand is the latest manufacturers and Joan Mir scoring the team’s best result in Portugal (11th).
For this Grand Prix of the Americas in Austin the situation does not seem to have changed much. The house pilots occupied the last four places in free practicewith Mir ending up on the ground and finishing 2.047 seconds from the best time scored by Jorge Martín.
The 2020 world champion confirmed that they don’t expect anything this weekend in Texas, as they are”pay the consequences» of having taken a wrong direction of development in 2024: “Yesterday, I was not very convinced compared to today. We have some problemsfurther [de lo que] probably expected after the tests at the start of the season.
“This problem, on one track, on another and on another, is not getting better, we are not getting better. I can’t really say what the problem is, but I think we’re heading in one direction [de desarrollo] it wasn’t the right one, and now we pay the consequences. We have to continue working,” added the Spaniard.
“The fact is that we probably detected the problem, and now we have to work on it, and the truth is that today my position is probably not the true one, because I had the fall, but I don’t don’t think I had the opportunity to go to Q2. Last year I was closer, I didn’t enter Q2 by a few tenths. For now, we are suffering more than last year on this track, and also in Portimao”, he underlined.
Speaking of Japan’s hopes of getting out of this complicated situation, the Mallorcan took responsibility: “The important thing is to take responsibility for what happens, change quickly and try to change direction. Its very important. “This is where we need to be smart about testing, this concession will be very helpful in achieving that.”