168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Johann Zarco held off Joan Mir for twelfth place and another top Honda finish in the Thailand MotoGP Sprint.

For ‘the first time this year’, the LCR♛ rider got off to a good start, only to be shuffled to 16th later in the lap.

“I struggled tﷺoo much on the first lap but not at the start,” Zarco said. “At the start, I didn't lose any positions, which is the first time this year.

“But I got a bit unlucky on the 🐼first lap because I was behind di Giannantonio who had to brake twice. The first was maybe to avoid Bezzecchi, the seconꦐd to avoid Fabio Quartararo.

“I was really close behind 𓆉Fabio and I had to brake also. So I could not use well the g🎀ood start.”

Quizzed on what made the difference for his race start compared to previous events, Zarco explain💝ed:

“I’m getting a good feeling with the clutch, but still we are not muc🔥h faster and maybe the fact that I didn't lose posit෴ions is that we don't put third gear [before braking for Turn 1] here.

“We just put second gear. And you don't have ti💦me to have too much wheelie.

“So maybe we reach 200km/h but not much more. And it's the accel⛦eration from 150 to 250km/h where sometimes we lose a few tenths.

“Here you quickly get to the brake so that's why I think I could keep my position. But my reaction was also very good, soꦰ I was happy.”

Reflecting on the rest of the♍ race, the Frenchman felꦯt they had not made progress from their Friday set-up.

“For the pace, we were missing something,” he said. “I co♉uld𝓡 not get the good feeling from Friday today.

“W🐟e🌼 have tried things, but it seems we did a little step back. So that's the situation at the moment.

“When we do well, it's hard to wish for better. As they say, sometimes ‘betඣ♔ter is the enemy of good’!

“But that’s♉ the philosophy of racing; you always want better. And we cannot wait for things to happ🐬en.

“We have to work to make things better, but because the [margin f🎐or] my good feeling on the bike is very thin at the moment, I lost it.

“But the positive is that I got it yesterday.”

Zarco is 17th in the world championship standings, 12 points clear of team-mate andꦑ next-best Honda rider Takaaki Nakagami.

Nakagami finished 18th in the Sprint.