Johann Zarco signs his first top 10 on the KTM

Taking advantage of the fall of several riders in front of him, Johann Zarco signs at the Catalan GP MotoGP 2019 his best result on the handlebars of the KTM and hopes to further improve the RC16 thanks to today’s tests. Debriefing.

This time it is! Johann Zarco has finally achieved his goal at the start of the season: to finish in the top 10.

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After a complicated start to the season (,,,, and) far from sound, it’s good for the morale and the confidence of Johann who patiently continues his adaptation to the KTM RC16.

"We are happy that Johann made his first top 10 and we hope that will give him some confidence for the future," said Mike Leitner, team manager of the official KTM team in MotoGP..

This satisfactory result should not however make us forget that only 13 pilots out of 24 crossed the finish line of this Catalan Grand Prix marked by a dozen crashes, including the "strike" of the second round which instantly ruined Dovizioso’s hopes, Rossi and Viñales – and Lorenzo…

"They weren’t that far ahead of me"

"I took advantage of the falls to get this top 10 but the second third of the race was good for me," says Johann Zarco now. "The pace was quite high, I was following Tito Rabat, sometimes I doubled and I could fight. I was happy to see the top ten ahead of me. They weren’t that far and I thought of catching them, even if I lacked speed. I was able to manage the race. Monday we have a lot of things to test and I hope that with the help of Dani (editor’s note) we will go in the right direction by putting the right ones things in place to help us ".

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Hopefully, the arrival of Pedrosa will allow Johann to get the best out of his bike, that his teammate Pol Espargaro places in front of him again by finishing 7th yesterday in Barcelona and .

"I’m really happy," said the Spaniard, who signed his fifth top 10 in seven races. "On Saturday I said that the race would be either very slow or with a lot of crashes: in fact it was both at the same time! Today we had to anticipate the braking and not look for the limits on the brakes or when accelerating. It was very difficult. You had to be precise like a watch and try to do everything at the same time with a lot of electronics ".

"Very satisfaying"

"The most important thing is the gap of 16 seconds on the winner", slice Pol Espargaro: "it’s incredible because last year we were at 36! I am ninth in the championship and 6 points behind the sixth up. I’m impressed with our performance today. ".

As for the KTM management, this GP of Catalonia is also "very satisfactory" because "Barcelona is one of the circuits on which we have had the most difficulty in the last two years, with Mugello where we also obtained decent results. ", notes the team manager.

“We knew it would be very difficult here because of the poor grip,” continues Mike Leitner: “Pol handled the race very well and we are happy that Johann made his first top 10. We hope that will give him a bit. of confidence for the future ".

The team is testing today "new elements concerning all aspects related to the engine, chassis and aerodynamics" in order to confirm these results in Assen…

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