The 2020 world champion was unable to make it directly into the Q2 segment of qualifying from practice and was left stranded in 18th on the grid after a late tumble in Q1 – though Marc Marquez’s withdrawal from the race promoted Mir to 17th.
All weekend the Suzuki rider struggled for rear grip on Michelin’s 2018 tyre construction it had brough for the Indonesian GP in response to the extreme heat.
Mir used the wet conditions to leap up from 17th to eighth on the opening lap of 20, and went on to salvage a solid sixth behind Suzuki team-mate Alex Rins.
Though he found small dry set-up gains in Sunday’s warm-up session, Mir admits his charge to sixth wouldn’t have been possible had the race not been wet.
“Well, in the warm-up we improved a little bit,” Mir said when asked by Autosport if Sunday’s thunderstorm was a blessing for him.
“I was struggling a little bit in sector four, but to make sixth position in completely dry, I think it would be something really…
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