Happy and motivated when arriving in Misano on Thursday, it is a Johann zarco frustrated and unhappy that we met on Sunday for his debriefing, on the evening of Grand Prix MotoGP from San Marino, despite having won the 4 points of 12th place.
Energy-hungry for poor performance, the current Honda seems neither well-born nor able to be developed in order to catch up with its rivals. It is therefore a completely new model that the French driver is waiting for, using a word that is not without recalling the unnatural fall of some heads...
As usual, we report here his words during his debriefing, without the slightest formatting, even if it is translated from English for the first part.
Johann zarco : “Today we knew it might rain so I was expecting a few drops and maybe a random race. Things could happen and I was right because I was surprised to see a few people come into the pits which allowed me to gain positions. I was happy about that but I wanted to take a bit more risks when we had some wet spots on the track but I wasn’t able to do that. I was too scared to crash and miss something. Then just after one or two laps the corners that were a bit wet dried up straight away. I was in 12th position and I stayed in 12th position for the whole race. But right from the start I couldn’t do a single lap in 1’33 and even when the track got good again after a few drops I did my best time in 33.8 which is too slow to be competitive. I tried everything but our bike is slow, and at the beginning of the race in the group I was not able to fight because we spend twice as much energy to turn and exit the corner. Just to get the speed we have to fight and we can not follow the others, and this is the sad situation of this race. So the positive is just that I got some points, because of this random situation, but tomorrow in the test I hope we will have good things with tests on the chassis, tests on the aerodynamics. I think for the engine we know what can work best, but we have to make a revolution on this bike, because here, on this track where the grip was very constant, I saw even more the difference with the others, and you can not do anything.
Is the revolution something you can work on starting tomorrow at the test, or is that a little further away in time?
“I think it’s a bit further away. I’m curious to see what will happen in the test, but I can’t expect too much. If not, I’ll be disappointed again. So I’m waiting. I hope the conditions will be good, that we won’t have rain tomorrow, otherwise it’s a shame and we’ll miss a lot of laps. But yeah, we’ll see. It’s something I don’t know, I can’t say what we need to change because it’s not my job. I can just give my feeling on the bike, which is that by trying everything on the riding style, we can’t follow the other guys. Even Rins at the end of the race: He didn’t overtake me because he was faster, but he had the blue flag so he had to stay behind me. But at the end of the race, he just passed me to do two laps, and I could see a big difference. So that’s the best comment I can give to Honda at the moment.” »
The raindrops…
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to slide, and the next turn, you pay attention but you see that ita not'doesn't seem to slide like the tower of'before, but as he there was a fall you still pay attention, and then you realize that it doesn't slide anymore. Anear,
I have the impression, pace at the end of the race more meven during the race, that he fwas going to stay on the line. It was a big line huh,
but maybe which s'moving a little further would have been a little more dangerous. But hey, the guys in front were driving very fast, so en fact the conditions were good. All that we had to wait the longest, cwas at the limit 2 ou 3 vibrators who put perhaps 2 more rounds
to be very dry."
Who decides to return to the box?
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en
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seconds
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being
here
en
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ou
43. Dyears all
the
case,
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à
the stop with an slick, you were going
more
follow. As a result, je thought
which
ceux
, here
have
selected
to enter
(have made a
error)."
Johann Zarco Misano debriefing
Johann Zarco Misano debriefing
