#AmericasGP MotoGP Race: Johann Zarco on the “We had to go” incident

An attempt by Johann Zarco to overtake Valentino Rossi, after the latter lost time in the previous corner…

An evasive maneuver from the official Yamaha rider which forces him to cut the next corner…

A penalty of 3/10 inflicted on Valentino Rossi for taking advantage…

A little warning message from the dean of the category towards the rookie who is not afraid...

After that of Valentino Rossi, the international press obviously collected the French driver's opinion regarding this altogether minor incident.

We thought we saw that there had almost been contact with Rossi. At the press conference, he said that we were not in Moto2. What do you think about this ?

Johann zarco : ” no, it’s MotoGP, maybe that’s why the way I did it couldn’t work (laughs). But it was necessary to do it like this, because I had the opportunity to overtake him, and if I wondered if I could do it or not, maybe I would have fallen. So we had to go there. ”

So the contact with Valentino was just a racing incident?

“Yes, because he wasn't very fast at turn #2 because of a mistake at turn #1. You really need to anticipate a lot and I thought this was the opportunity to pass him in turn #3. But he was also able to get pretty quick again in turn #3, and like I said, I made the decision to do it so I did it. It was limited but OK: the worst thing in this situation was that we lost contact with the Honda drivers. ”