Qatar GP – Zarco (15th): "Currently we cannot win or even aim for the top 5"

Johann Zarco’s 2019 MotoGP season promises to be decidedly long, like this race without much flavor on his official KTM … Calm and thoughtful, the French rider has no shortage of reasons to hope for improvements.. Statements and Analysis.

Johann Zarco, official KTM red Bull (21st in qualifying and 15th in race) : "The start of the race was pretty good, I controlled the bike well and the others weren’t much stronger than me".

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"It was a good way to analyze the performance of my competitors. I’m happy, because I expected to have to struggle but I saw that other riders were having problems as well. I know that currently we do not ‘we don’t have the necessary package to win or even aim for the top 5, but with work and a good command I really think the top 10 is playable ".

"That’s my goal this year, we’ll see in Argentina if I can reach it. I would have liked to do it here, but ultimately because of the ups and downs of Friday and Saturday I was not ready. is part of the experience and it was very important to do 22 laps in a row for the first time. I’m in an official team and I know they have what it takes to make a good analysis of this race. "…

Site analysis : It may be very long, this learning season for Johann at KTM … On a circuit where he shone two years in a row on the M1 Tech3 in and, the French went completely unnoticed yesterday on the official RC16 and finished more than 15 seconds behind the leaders, just ahead who discovered the category on the handlebars of his M1 satellite.

Calm and thoughtful, Johann is well aware of the task ahead and does not aim for the title of world champion before "". But yesterday in Qatar, even his goal of top 10 in 2019 and top 5 in 2020 was out of reach.

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However, it should be noted that by finishing the Qatar GP 2109, Zarco offered KTM a (18th place for Bradley Smith and retirement for Pol Espargaro), while doing better than Pol Espargaro and Bradley Smith in (respectively 16th and 17th out of 18 classified).

This will give courage to the French driver – who is now looking forward to the Argentine GP with at least as much impatience as we are! -, especially with his teammate Pol Espargaro.

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