Motorcycle videos: A look back at an exceptional 2017 French Grand Prix

This weekend, the Bugatti circuit at Le Mans hosted the fifth round of the motorcycle speed world championship. Broadcast live on France 3 and followed on site by 105,020 spectators, the MotoGP race will be remembered thanks to the Yamaha trio: Vinales, Rossi and Zarco…

Despite a timid audience in 2016 (a little less than 800,000 cumulative viewers), the French motorcycle Grand Prix was back this Sunday on France 3. Courageous, the decision was undoubtedly motivated by the arrival on the set – MotoGP! – a very promising French driver: a certain Johann Zarco…

Last Thursday, the day before the first day of testing on the Bugatti circuit in Le Mans, the France Info channel raised the temperature by broadcasting a short topic on our double Moto2 world champion, a great hope of the public expected en masse this year to encourage the n ° 5 of the Tech3 team therefore, but also Loris Baz and Sylvain Guintoli !

Saturday, it is the program "Tout le sport" which returned to the unexpected third fastest time achieved by Zarco in qualifying, thus erasing his fall in free practice the same morning. The Cannes native, who has dazzled his fans since his phenomenal opening to the season in Qatar, realizes that he is in return benefiting from "Rossi-esque" support from his public at Le Mans. Proof is made that emotions are only really strong when they are shared !

Another driver, of Australian origin, also caused a sensation during testing: extremely swift the first day on a wet tarmac, Jack Miller crashed the next day at very high speed at the exit of the famous Dunlop curve. Stubborn as a mule – and immensely lucky above all – the n ° 43 rider of the Honda VDS team was able to start the race…

The third video posted yesterday (Sunday) by France Televisions on its YouTube channel "" allows you to relive in live conditions the last round of the 2017 French GP and the double error of Valentino Rossi. With nearly 6,000 views on the clock – which climbs almost visibly – it is the most viewed video in the last 24 hours !

After his gap in the Green Garage which opened the door to Maverick Vinales, the famous n ° 46 Yamaha wanted to get his teammate back to n ° 25 as quickly as possible to try a final maneuver at the Connection … But the fall of the Italian in the Esses Bleus took away all hope and deprived him of big points in the championship.

Author of a sumptuous race in the company of the Yamaha factory riders, Johann Zarco thus climbs on the second step of his first podium in the premier class. A bit mischievous, the French driver admits that he would have liked to make La Marseillaise resound, but Rossi did not have the "good" idea to mow down Vinales. Pity ?!

As fine on the handlebars of his M1 as at the microphone of journalists, the colt of Herve Poncharal did not fail to thank the supporters who helped him a lot during the race, his Tech3 team and all those who had him on his arrival. watched on television: "more podiums are to come", concluded the incredible "rookie". Stay connected to Site therefore !

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