GP de France – Johann Zarco was the fastest at the end of the GP de France 2020 – Occasions DUCATI

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Johann Zarco was the fastest at the end of the 2020 French GP

GP de France - Johann Zarco was the fastest at the end of the GP de France 2020 - Occasions DUCATI

Johann Zarco finishes the 2020 French Grand Prix with the double satisfaction of being the first French driver and the first private in front of his home crowd thanks to his spectacular comeback in the last laps. What to regret his choice of medium tires penalizing at the start of the race … Debriefing and analysis.

Johann Zarco, Ducati-Avinitia (9th in qualifying and 5th in race): “Fifth: I’m happy, it’s a good race! I struggled a lot with the medium rear tire because when it was wet I couldn’t properly lean the bike and I wasted a lot of time. lost the rear numerous times, but I knew it was going to dry out and I could increase my pace ".

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"Except I expected it to dry sooner! If it had, I really would have had a chance to win, but it started to rain again after six or seven laps … When the track dried up again, I started to be faster, I had a lot of fun, but there were not enough laps left to think about the podium ".

MNC analysis : Johann Zarco humbly acknowledges it: if the French Grand Prix had to be redone, the future Ducati-Pramac rider would choose the soft tire at the rear to "lose less time at the start of the race and thus fight for the podium or even maybe – even be for victory. But with "ifs", we can remake the world! "

 GP de France - Johann Zarco was the fastest at the end of the GP de France 2020 - Occasions DUCATI

Danilo Petrucci’s victorious demonstration on his Ducati on "medium-soft" tires indicates that this association was the most informed, including with regard to the choice of "soft-soft" attempted by his teammate Andrea Dovizioso: the Italian did not could not defend his podium for lack of grip in the last laps.

Johann – the only rider with Mir to have started in "medium-medium" – for his part found himself in difficulty as the track remained wet, even very wet after the return of a downpour. Conditions unsuitable for the hardness of its medium gums which are more designed for drying.

Moving from 9th to 14th place, Johann did not dismantle and was able to reverse the trend when the time came. The Frenchman only accelerated on the last five laps, posting the fastest time of the race in his 24th lap. The n ° 5 went down to 1’43.301 on the penultimate lap, half a second faster than all his rivals ! 

This heroic charge brought her back on the heels of Andrea Dovizioso, whom Johann had involuntarily dropped during the previous race in Catalonia: "it would have been stressful to overtake Dovi, so I’m happy like that!", Recognizes the n ° 5 , who long greeted the 5,000 French supporters.

The next MotoGP race will take place in Spain with the Aragon Grand Prix scheduled for next Sunday. It will be followed the following week by the unprecedented Grand Prix of Teruel on the same circuit.

MotoGP results of the French GP 2020

  1. Danilo PETRUCCI Ducati 45’54.736
  2. Alex MARQUEZ Honda +1.273
  3. Pol ESPARGARO KTM +1.711
  4. Andrea DOVIZIOSO Ducati +3.911
  5. Johann ZARCO Ducati +4.310
  6. Miguel OLIVEIRA KTM +4.466
  7. Takaaki NAKAGAMI Honda +5.921
  8. Stefan BRADL Honda +15.597
  9. Fabio QUARTARARO Yamaha +16.687
  10. Maverick VIÑALES Yamaha +16.895
  11. Joan MIR Suzuki +16.980
  12. Brad BINDER KTM +27.321
  13. Francesco BAGNAIA Ducati +33.351
  14. Aleix ESPARGARO Aprilia +39.176
  15. Iker LECUONA KTM +51.087
  16. Alex RINS Suzuki + 1’14.190

Not classified 

  • Jack MILLER Ducati 7 Tours
  • Franco MORBIDELLI Yamaha 8 Tours
  • Cal CRUTCHLOW Honda 9 Tours
  • Tito RABAT Ducati 12 Laps
  • Bradley SMITH Aprilia 18 Tours
  • Valentino ROSSI Yamaha

Provisional MotoGP classification at Le Mans

  1.   Yamaha 115
  2. Suzuki 105
  3. Ducati 97
  4. Yamaha 96
  5. Honda 81
  6. Yamaha 77
  7. Ducati 75
  8. KTM 73
  9. KTM 69
  10. Ducati 64
  11. KTM 62
  12. Suzuki 60
  13. Yamaha 58
  14. Honda 47
  15. Ducati 47
  16. Ducati 42
  17. Aprilia 24
  18. KTM 18
  19. Honda 13
  20. Aprilia 11
  21. Honda 8
  22. Ducati 8
  23. Ducati 4

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