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2020 MotoGP season
Round 10
Aragon Grand Prix
Ciudad del Motor de Aragon
Joan Mir will look to bounce back to front-running form in the
2020 MotoGP world championship when the season heads to Spain for the Aragon Grand Prix on Sunday 18 October.
Mir endured a “bad race” at the previous round in France, managing only an 11th-place finish as he struggled with the wet conditions at Le Mans. Yet the Suzuki rider still remains in second place on the riders’ championship standings, just 10 points adrift of leader Fabio Quartararo of Yamaha.
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The championship leader also had a tough time of things in the French Grand Prix (he finished ninth) as the trend of no single rider being able to take firm control of the title race continued unabated.
"I think both of us [Quartararo and Mir] had a bad race," said the Suzuki pilot. "Both of us were not in the position that people expected us to be. It was OK, because in dry conditions, [Quartararo] had something more than everyone else, so he had the chance of victory [last Sunday].
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"I was not one of the fastest in dry conditions. Probably we would be fighting for the top five. But at the end, top five for me and Quartararo taking victory would be a bigger points difference. So it's OK like this.
"To make one bad race is allowed, but what we cannot do is to repeat this performance in Aragon. We have to get back our feelings, and to be back on the podium."
The Spaniard finished 14
th at the Aragon Grand Prix in 2019, with Andrea Iannone, Danilo Petrucci and Miguel Oliveira coming home ahead of him in a four-way scrap to the line.
Aragon Circuit details
Opened: 2009
Circuit length: 5.078km
Lap record: 1:46:881, Jorge Lorenzo, Yamaha, 2018
Most wins, rider: Marc Marquez, 5
Most wins, manufacturer: Honda, 7
MotoGP 2020 – Riders’ championship
1. Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha – 115 points
2. Joan Mir, Suzuki – 105
3. Andrea Dovizioso, Ducati – 97
4. Maverick Vinales, Yamaha – 96
5. Takaaki Nakagami, Honda – 81
MotoGP 2020 – Manufacturers’ championship
1. Yamaha – 170 points
2. Ducati – 151
3. KTM – 125
4. Suzuki – 118
5. Honda – 92
6. Aprilia – 32
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