Mir and Rins newest riders to endure burns in brutal Thai MotoGP

Joan Mir mentioned he was ‘burning himself’ within the brutal warmth of Buriram after crashing out of the highest 10 within the MotoGP Thai Grand Prix on Sunday.

Mir’s manufacturing unit Yamaha counterpart Alex Rins was additionally affected by an overheating bike in Thailand, revealing a burned patch on his internal thigh through the post-race interviews.

Having certified eleventh for the season opener, Mir steadily climbed up the order within the first half of the race, consolidating seventh place behind the Pramac Yamaha of Jack Miller.

However on lap 15 of 26, the Spaniard tucked the entrance of his RC213V on the tough ultimate nook, changing into the primary rider to retire from the race.

Whereas it initially appeared that the incident was completely right down to rider error, Mir later revealed that his bike was overheating a lot that it turned onerous for him to remain upright.

“We had been having some issues with the warmth of the bike,” the 2020 champion defined. “It is one thing that we are going to proceed engaged on, however the fact is that we made some modifications and it was worse than yesterday.

“We tried to make one thing on the final second yesterday to attempt to enhance it and actually I used to be burning myself. [It was] a giant problem to remain on the bike. I believe it was the worst I had on a bike. I used to be by no means burning like this.

“And actually, this factor was not serving to with the crash. I made a mistake and getting burned was not serving to to not make any errors.”

Ambient temperature remained over 30C on the Chang Worldwide Circuit this weekend, whereas monitor temperature exceeded 50C.

The extraordinarily sizzling circumstances in Thailand have been inflicting havoc for quite a lot of riders, with VR46 Ducati rider Fabio Di Giannantonio revealing that he had to voluntarily retire from Saturday’s sprint after struggling burns to his fingers, legs and neck.

Whereas Mir’s Honda wasn’t affected as badly, he nonetheless suffered some blisters on his physique as a result of warmth popping out from his bike.

He mentioned: “It was the legs [that were worst affected]. I’ve some blisters.

“I do not know [what] the temperature [was] however it is vitally, extremely popular. It is burning. Additionally, in the precise [hand] corners, particularly the gradual corners, I used to be burning myself.

“I crashed within the nook that I used to be burning myself.”

Photographs from Thailand GP – Race