San Marino GP – Zarco (10th): "I have to work on myself to continue to grow"

Tenth yesterday at the San Marino MotoGP GP, the French rider Johann Zarco on the Tech3 team’s private Yamaha again misses his Top 5 goal and remains 7th in the provisional general classification of the world championship. Debriefing.

Johann Zarco, Yamaha Tech3 (9th in qualifying and 10th in race) : "The race was difficult today, it was hot. I felt comfortable thanks to the work we did in the warm up. At the start of the race, in the first corners of the first lap, I I was able to control the bike well. But staying with the others was difficult, especially behind Valentino who was very strong and whom I could not pass ".

• MNC of September 9, 2018:
• MNC Live –
• MNC of September 8, 2018: 

"My weak point is that I always lost in acceleration. From the start of the race, I lost a few meters coming out of the corner, then I made a mistake entering turn 10 and I think it made me waste a lot of time and energy ".

"We are too weak out of the curve"

"Then I tried to find the rhythm and to relax, but I couldn’t do more, so it was not easy", continues the French driver who keeps his, but this time behind Crutchlow and in front of Petrucci.

• MNC file :

"The feeling to handle and control the bike was correct, but we are too weak out of the corners. For the next races I will try to find a solution, including my riding style, to have fewer problems. gave all the energy I had, but still finished far from the best. It’s hard to accept, but that’s the outcome of our races for now. I have to accept it and work on myself to keep growing ".

Site analysis : It is clear that since his contract with, Johann has struggled to regain the ease he had last year (6th in the world championship with) and until the very beginning of the season this year (2nd in and in )…

Since he did, Zarco has fluctuated between 7th and 10th place, still too far from his top 5 goals. Especially since without Lorenzo’s fall, Zarco would have finished 11th in the worst place in his career. season. 

"It was a difficult Grand Prix, but we knew it was going to be difficult," tempers Herve Poncharal who had hoped that the factory Yamaha would provide him with. It was obviously not the case … whatever? Because in the defense of the French, it is clear that even the official Yamaha are struggling at the moment: yesterday in Misano, Viñales finished 5th behind Alex Rins’ Suzuki (!) While Rossi, 7th, did not does little more than appearances in front of his hoards of fans in yellow…

Johann had chosen a soft tire at the front and rear, so that he could more easily stay in contact with the top drivers early in the race. The math paid off in the first lap, but he then lost four places to find himself 13th in the second. Then, with regular lap times in 1’34, he was unable to get back on the lead car which was turning in 1’33.

"There will be tracks which are better for us and for Yamaha, like Aragon, but for the moment it is a bit difficult", concludes the team manager of Tech3. "The good thing is that we keep in touch for the best independent pilot with Cal Crutchlow and Danilo Petrucci".

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