The truth about Johann Zarco’s feeling about his 2024 Hon🌼da have finally been laid bare♏.

LCR Honda team boss Lucio Cecchinello ⛦has come clean about how Zarco wasn’t aꦡlways publicly honest with his thoughts.

Zarco swapped Pramac Ducati for LCR Honda in 2024, joining a struggling project where he on🦋ly made his feelings known privately.

“The 2024 season was tough, at the beginning it was tough,”𒈔 Cecchinello said.

“Zarco, in the media, always tried to behave positively🔯. Buᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚt inside the garage, I can tell you, there was sometimes tension!

“It’s normal. The rider was fed up because ওwe couldn’t provide a better bike.

“We were at the bottom of the rank𝄹ing. It was tough.

“We kept developing the bike,♍ Hon🔜da did an amazing job. At the end of the season we are more happy because we are nearer the top 10.”

In 20 grands pr💛ix, the LCR team out-paced their factory counterparts on 16 occasions.

Zarco was regularly the fastest Honda all se🍷ason. He finish🙈ed 17th in the standings, above the three other Hondas.

Aleix Espargaro 'remarkable'

LCR will keep Zarco on board in 2025, but his 2024 teammate Takaaki Nakagami has been ▨demoted to the role of a test rider.

S💃omkiat Chantra is stepping up to MotoGP for LCR alongside Z🎀arco.

Nakagami will be joined in the tes�💖�t team by Aleix Espargaro.

“I am sure that Aleix is an extremely experienced rider, what he’s done in💦 his career is remarkable,” C💞ecchinello said.

“Until the last race, he kept pushing. Sometimes this isn’t 🉐common.

“Many times at the end of your career, you think ‘why shall I take a risk? There is no meaning to take a risk, I don’t want 🤪to retire 🃏with a broken leg!’

“But he didn’t𓃲. He kept pushing. It’s remarkable.”