Valencia GP – Joan Mir, the 2020 MotoGP champion that nobody expected … – Used SUZUKI

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Joan Mir, the 2020 MotoGP champion that no one expected…

Valencia GP - Joan Mir, the 2020 MotoGP champion that nobody expected ... - Used SUZUKI

The organizers of MotoGP had two good ideas … The day before the first – and late – GP in Jerez, they proposed to seven MotoGP leaders to deliver their prediction for the 2020 season. Today the video extract is replayed , we realize that none had integrated Joan Mir in the final Top 5 ! Logic ?

Five short seasons … Two in Moto3 (start in 2016, title in 2017), only one in Moto2 (4 podiums in 2018) and two in MotoGP (directly within the Suzuki team!) Will have been enough for Joan Mir to succeed. impose in MotoGP, during a 2020 season reduced by the Covid-19 of course, but not easier for all that…

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We could even consider that the long and desperate absence of competition, the upheaval of the calendar of the Intercontinental Circus – reconfigured in "Continental Circus", with half of the races in Spain! – then the sequence of numerous races over a short period, considerably strengthened this championship.

The first MotoGP event in Jerez was moreover as explosive as it was late: dominated by the "Fabio-lous rookie 2019" Fabio Quartararo in qualifying, the six-time premier category champion fell twice during the race, injuring himself gravely on the right arm. MNC readers know the incredible sequel: hasty return, bay window, prolonged convalescence, spoiled season, undetermined return.

Valencia GP - Joan Mir, the 2020 MotoGP champion that no one expected ... - Used SUZUKI

Like Mick Doohan following his heavy fall in Jerez (definitely!) In 1999, the top Honda Repsol rider was therefore forced to give up his crown, his throne, his "number one" plate … But in 2020, the young brother Alex Marquez could not imitate Alec Criville and take over !

Invited to predict the Top5 of MotoGP 2020 on the occasion of the press conference for the first Grand Prix of the 2020 season (for the premier category), Marc Marquez, Alex Rins, Fabio Quartararo, Valentino Rossi, Maverick Vinales, Jack Miller and Pol Espargaro obviously did not foresee the zero points of the champion in (six) title (s)…

Of these seven amateur tipsters – but professional riders – five of them saw the No.93 stack a seventh MotoGP title, as much as No.46. A logical choice, guided by Marc’s thunderous season last year: 18 podiums including 12 victories in 19 races. "Aye Caramba" !

Only two punters saw themselves as champions in place of their compatriot: the Spaniards Rins and Vinales! "Our" international Quartararo and his Australian friend Miller humbly imagined themselves finishing runner-up (also missed …) while the outsider Espargaro did not fit in the Top5, just like the superstitious Rossi who was was content to reproduce the 2019 ranking. Small player ?!

Valencia GP - Joan Mir, the 2020 MotoGP champion that nobody expected ... - Used SUZUKI

None had written on their tablet the name of Joan Mir, the 2019 rookie – largely eclipsed by the sensational Quartararo – who had finished 12th in his first season in the big leagues, with 92 points on the clock and a fifth place in the GP from Australia for best result.

The start of the 2020 season also proved the predictions right: as a reminder, after the third race in Brno (Czech Republic), the name of the future world champion only appeared in 14th place! The Suzuki rider n ° 36 had then gleaned only 11 points, against 59 for "our" leader on his Yamaha n ° 20…

Joan Mir, shooting star or champion in orbit ?

It was on the Spielberg circuit that the ad-Mir-able machine was put in road track: second in the Austrian GP in two stages (Mir was on course to win, before the race was interrupted by the exit of Maverick "no brake" Vinales) and fourth in the Styrian GP, ​​Joan then rode on six podiums in seven races !

Propelled to the top of the championship at the end of the GP of Aragon without having won a single race in MotoGP, the young Spaniard silenced his detractors by winning the GP of Europe, the first event organized on the Valencia circuit. . Most of his detractors in fact, since some consider that Rins gave him the victory by voluntarily pushing aside in Turn 11, without then retaliating….

Valencia GP - Joan Mir, the 2020 MotoGP champion that no one expected ... - Used SUZUKI

Last Sunday, the metronome set on a cautious pace in order to foil all odds and win the supreme title in motorcycle speed. Released from this pressure, Mir will aim for a second success in the final in Portimao, Portugal. FYI, the Mallorcan has already ridden and won … in the Spanish Moto3 Championship (2015).

The 2020 MotoGP champion would thus equal his predecessors titled in the premier class with two victories on the clock: Leslie Graham (1949, inaugural year of the motorcycle speed world championship), Umberto Masetti (1950, 1952) and the late Nicky Hayden (2006) , another unexpected and controversial champion: had the "Kentucky Kid" won the championship or was it "The Doctor" who lost him ?

Valencia GP - Joan Mir, the 2020 MotoGP champion that nobody expected ... - Used SUZUKI

Compared to Hayden who had to defend – lose … – his world crown at the controls of a brand new 800 cc RC212V rather than the handlebars of "his" 990 cc RC211V, Mir has one small advantage: he will ride the same bike next year !

Logically, Suzuki rider n ° 1 (will this number appear on his fairing?) Should be stronger in 2021 … Enough to twist a Marc Marquez – his right arm, ouch – back in great shape? Will Mir be a shooting star – like Criville – or is he now in orbit, set to dominate the Grand Prix world for several years – like Lorenzo or Marquez ?

Ah, if only Site had a Delorean: Le Journal moto du Net would have won the jackpot last Sunday by betting on Mir … at the start of the season! This is alas – or fortunately for the suspense and space-time balance !? – not the case. To know the future of MotoGP therefore, only one solution: stay connected !

The 2020 predictions of the leaders of MotoGP

The prognosis of Marc Marquez, MotoGP champion 2013-14-16-17-18-19 (!):

  1. Mark
  2. Vinales
  3. Quartararo
  4. Dovizioso
  5. Rins

The prognosis of Alex Rins, Joan’s teammate at Suzuki from 2019 to 2022:

  1. Rins
  2. Vinales
  3. Mark
  4. Quaratraro
  5. Dovizioso

The prediction of Fabio Quartararo, best rookie 2019 and future Rossi replacement:

  1. Mark
  2. Quartararo
  3. Vinales
  4. Miller
  5. Rins

The prognosis of Valentino Rossi, too superstitious which takes up the 2019 ranking:

  1. Mark
  2. Dovizioso
  3. Vinales
  4. Rins
  5. Quartararo

The prognosis of Maverick Vinales, first winner on Suzuki GSX-RR in 2016:

  1. Vinales
  2. Mark
  3. Quartararo
  4. Miller
  5. Rins

The prognosis of Jack Miller, friend of Fabio who also leaves Marc on his throne:

  1. Mark
  2. Miller
  3. Vinales
  4. Quartararo
  5. Dovizioso

The prognosis of Pol Espargaro, who did not see himself in the Top5 but could end there:

  1. Mark
  2. Vinales
  3. Rins
  4. Dovizioso
  5. Quartararo

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