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If you are already a subscriber, log in to read the full text. You can find out more about subscribing to here. To read the remaining 2551 words of this article, you need to sign up to become a site supporter by taking out a subscription. Although both of our riders have enough potential to go to Q2 directly, we sometimes missed out on doing that. Anything can happen in the qualifying session, and you can easily miss out on taking the top 2 positions in Q1 if something happens. SS: I think winning in Q1 to proceed to Q2 is more challenging than finishing within the top ten places in FP3 to go directly to Q2.
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A fraction of a second in lap times makes a huge difference on the grid. Winning the top 2 positions in Q1 to proceed to Q2 is also a very close battle. Q: When we look at the qualifying performance, the gap between Pole Position and twelfth position is very narrow. To make sure we don't fall between two stools, now we are looking for the best solutions. It makes no sense if we change something drastically and lose the best balance of our bike to lose both QP and the race. However, balance is the key for motorcycles. In any case, fast riders are always fast whatever happens, so we have to improve our performance in qualifying. Sometimes, it was just bad luck such as a yellow flag during a time attack or coming across other riders. We always did our best to get as high a position on the grid as possible, but our hard work did not necessarily pay off. The fact is, our competitors improved these areas so that comparatively we seemed to lose our advantage and it made difficult to move up our positions. I don’t think we lost this advantage this season. Our package had an advantage in the second half of the race, which was why we managed to chase them down. We have been struggling with this problem since last year, so we always had to try hard to close the gap to the leading group in the race. Although you seemed to have this problem throughout this season, finally, Joan took third grid and finished second in the penultimate round at Portimao. Q: When I interviewed you in Qatar at the beginning of this season, you said that one of the issues you had to improve was Qualifying. What we have to improve for the next season is in these areas, I suppose. We lost the 2021 championship not because of him but because of something we didn’t have with our bike and in our team. SS: I think Joan is one of the best riders in MotoGP currently because he won the championship in 2020. Q: What was the weakness in your package? Yamaha and Fabio Quartararo had a better and more competitive package than ours. We did our best, but the simple fact was that our package was not strong enough to win the championship. Shinichi Sahara: Our perspective for this season was to be a challenger for the championship as we were in the past, rather than a champion defending the title. Q: First of all, we would like to know why Joan Mil and Team SUZUKI ECSTAR could not win the championship this season.
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Obviously, Sahara-san had a lot to talk about. On the Valencia GP weekend, we visited Suzuki hospitality to hear about their review of the 2021 season and the plan for 2022 from their team leader/development manager, Shinichi Sahara. Suzuki was third for the team and constructors championship. Then, for the 2021 season, Mir finished in third place in the championship, and his teammate Alex Rins ended the season in thirteenth place. It was the first glory for Suzuki in two decades. Meanwhile, there is another Japanese saying, “know yourself as well as your enemy, then you will win a hundred battles.” In 2020, Joan Mir won the MotoGP championship.
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In Japan, there is an old saying: "A defeated general never speaks about their deployment," because once they lost the war, everything they say sounds like excuses.