Johann Zarco is currently not able to show his advantage on a Ducati GP19 that he is just discovering. 18e Friday, 1s6 behind his fellow Yamaha leader Quartararo, the Avintia rider reduced the gap to 1s2 on the same boss on the timesheet while losing a position. Here it is 19e with the awareness of the path he still has to go to do better…
Johann zarco got off to a timid start with Ducati and the Frenchman is the first to recognize it. In his analysis of his Saturday which marked the second of three days of test in Sepang, he mainly focuses on himself before talking about the bike… “ I had three months off, after the accident in Valencia. I couldn't really ride much this winter, and even though I wanted to do motocross, it was raining in the south of France and Spain ", said zarco.
« It hasn't been easy to ride a lot and I could feel it yesterday and a little today that the three month break was a little long. I lost some sensations. So, for me, it's a good avenue to start again. With more or less the good things I had done with the Honda LCR, I expected to have a better pace with the Ducati » admits the tricolor, however.
« It's not that at the moment, but really there is no stress because there are also these three months of leave which have changed me a little ". When Motorsport asks him if he can compare his experience Ducati with his first steps KTM, he answers : " it's a different job. I don't need to develop the bike and I can work a lot more on myself. It's easier for me because I feel at the moment that I'm missing a few things that I need to find to be with the leading group. »
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