Why “not very positive” Honda MotoGP test steps aren’t ‘stressing’ Zarco

LCR rider reflects on Barcelona MotoGP test

Johann Zarco, LCR Honda, 2024 Barcelona MotoGP test
Johann Zarco, LCR Honda, 2024 Barcelona MotoGP test
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Johann Zarco says the 2025 Honda he tried at the post-season Barc♒elona MotoG🌄P test “was not very positive” but is “not getting stressed” about it.

Factory Honda team rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Joan Mir was critical of the Japanese marque’s lac🔯🉐k of new items brought to Tuesday’s test at Barcelona.

The 2020 world champion said everything he tried fo♏r 2025 were developments he’d tested before this year and was expecting to have more new parts.

Zarco finished 10th overall in the test after 65 laps and was comfortably the fastest HRC rider, though he too was not hap🐎py with the evolution of bike he tried.

“We got something 🌠new, with a new bike, bu🍌t was not very positive,” he began.

“So, it’s information to maybe don’t go in this direction for February. My feeling on the bike anyway when ꦚI was jumping from my race bike to the new bike, I was working on my riding style, trying🐎 to use the bike as well as possible.

“And I was enjoying t🐟oday because I was doing very short runs but laps of quality, and that was cool. We tried different things that gave some good feelings.

“In general, it was a positive day🌌, but for🐟 what Honda wants to push for next year we need to have a meeting to analyse and take a decision to push or not in the direction they went today.

“I think they won’t do it. In general, wh♛at we have seen compared to the other bikes, is to improve our en🦩gine.

“It’s one of the main points, because we don’t have the fastest bike and it’s important to have power on the bike to fight on the straight and get good posi🐓tions to overtake on t🅷he brakes.

“Then the weak point of our bike, this rear grip𒀰 control.

“We still didn’t find anything to take a step forward. This grip control c♛an help for acceleration but can also help for the braking area, which is the weak point.”

Among the new items Zarco tried was a differeജnt chassis, but he says this took away from the positives of the RC213V and didn’t improve the weak point of traction.

But 🐭he is not hitting the panic button just yet as he feels testing something that 𒉰didn’t work is still a good thing for Honda.

“I think it was taking away the positi๊ves,” 🍨he added.

“It didn’t improve our weak point. That means something. That’s why I’m not getting stressed about it, becauseꦿ we were not goi🧸ng much slower.

“Because we are still slower than a Ducati, the next steps must make an improvement in lap 🌳time.

“That’s why for me it was a positive day because we did many good laps, many l🐭aps, and we have a good feeling just working on myself.

“And what we tested also in different areas of the bike gave good feedback and it was much information 🌸very important that they will study over the winter.

“It’s not really a new project, but𓆉 the modification that they did was not very good for the🍎 riders.” 

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