Joan Mir will follow the same path Marc Marquez took in 2024 by leaving Honda to join Gresini for the 2027 MotoGP campaign. Yet the circumstances surrounding the two moves could hardly be more different, just as the motivations driving each rider were worlds apart.
The comparison is an obvious one. Marquez and Mir shared the factory Honda garage in 2023 before the former made the biggest gamble of his career, walking away from the final year of his contract with HRC - worth close to €20 million - to join the Faenza-based squad and ride a year-old Ducati rather than the latest-spec Desmosedici.
