Joan Mir claimed his second MotoGP podium of the 2021 season for Suzuki on a difficult day after Moto3 rider Jason Dupasquier passed awꦏay. 

News of Dupasquier succumbing to the injuries suffered in qualifying led to a minute of silence on the ꦯgrid with all riders presenཧt. 

Speaking ♛after 🀅the race, Mir said ‘there’s no preparation’ for what happened, and that he sends his ‘strength’ to the family of Dupasquier. 

Mir added: "There’s no preparation for it. Everyone of us -🐽 more the riders, we feel this more than others because we can empathise a lot with this type of thing, because a lot of times we forget what can happen. 

"We have to respe✃ct each othꦍer a lot, to always be responsible, and don’t forget that this is a dangerous sport. 

"So all the strength༒ that I can give to the family. It was a difficult day today at the office." 

On-track, it was a return to theไ podium for Mir and Suzuki as he matched his season best result of third from Portimao. 

Mir struggled to get past team-mate Alex Rins and the Ducati of Jack Miller earlꦫy on, but onc𒈔e he did, the 2020 world champion managed to quickly close down Johann Zarco and Miguel Oliveira. 

Mir was able to make his move on Zarco at the change of direction corners 🏅- Cas🐟anova and Savelli. 

"I’m really satisfied about the job that we did. The team works really well, I was able to make a weekend from less to more ♑an💎d to find step-by-step the good pace and the good feelings with the bike," said Mir. 

"Here, the goal is always the podium, but we know ဣthat here and these first tracks for us would be difficult🤡. 

"At the end we have two podiums at the moment and now there are better tracks coming for us, so we’re quite optimi🌳🅘stic. 

"I think we 🍬will be stronger and stronger and hopefully to alwaysღ be here."