In three races of this last part of the MotoGP season, Johann Zarco has undone the work he had patiently built during the nine Grands Prix experienced during the first. A heartbreak for the Frenchman who was counting on these deadlines to launch his offensive on the championship leader and compatriot Fabio Quartararo and thus assert himself as the best chance of the Ducati clan. Instead, his overall rating increased from 34 to 69 units. The Pramac rider has lost more points on the official Yamaha in the last three races than in the nine completed until the summer break. The double Moto2 World Champion is so aware of this that he is reviewing his plans…
Johann zarco had the slack that was not needed at the most unfavorable moment to cash it. He had finished second four times in the first eight races of the year. In the last three he fell once, finished eleventh and sixth. Meanwhile, his young teammate George Martin stole the show by winning his first victory in his first year in MotoGP for a great first for his Pramac team.
At the end of Silverstone, the tricolor has certainly regained a place in the leading trio of the provisional general classification and the best rank of the four drivers Ducati equipped with GP21, it is nonetheless in a degraded position since returning from the summer break. A situation that he takes into account as follows: “ I have to get the championship out of my head because it put too much pressure on me when I came back from the summer break », recognizes the Pramac Ducati rider who adds: “ whether conscious or unconscious, it's hard to say ».
Johann Zarco: “I wanted to move up a gear but it didn't work out that way"
« I wanted to move up a gear to better follow Fabio. But it didn't work like that. That doesn't mean I've lost hope. Lots of things can still happen. But the fact is that Fabio kept his position, while I need more time to analyze several things » he adds.
An analysis that even goes beyond thinking about the title race. It also concerns his position in the clan Ducati. Here too, ambitions are being scaled back… “ In the last two weeks, I certainly haven't entertained the idea of joining the factory team. My position in the Pramac team is good. The candidate should be Jorge Martin, because he is younger, so that's how it is. As long as I can compete for the world title in the future, I'm happy ».
