Mir was eighth at the end of the opening lap at Misano on Sunday and was still over two seconds adrift of the podium in sixth by lap 17.
As his Suzuki teammate Alex Rins began to battle Rossi for third in the latter stages, Mir was able to close in and capitalised on a mistake for the former going onto the final lap to move into fourth.
Mir then got on terms with Rossi and executed a daring move on the inside of the Tramonto right-hander at Turn 10 to steal third from the Yamaha rider.
The Suzuki rider admitted he was “sorry” to deny Rossi a home podium, but “will never forget” the move he pulled for his second MotoGP podium.
We’ve done a really good job, we gave our 100%. We never gave up the fight for the podium.
“In the beginning I was struggling quite a lot to have to the grip to follow the podium guys.
“Then when the tyre was getting a bit more used, I was able to have a bit more of stability in the fast corners and the lap times were coming easily.
“And then I start to recover distance to the podium riders. And I thought with this pace the podium is possible because Franco [Morbidelli] was already gone.
“Then I overtook Alex and the last lap with Valentino was so nice, something I will never forget, was a good manoeuvre.
“I am sorry for him because he did a really good job, really good race. But today was my day.”
Valentino Rossi, Yamaha Factory Racing
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September 14, 2020 at 05:50PM
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