While Fabi😼o Quartararo, who rec🌳ently underwent arm pump surgery, was on his way to a podium finish in the Dutch MotoGP, countryman Johann Zarco was pulling out of the race due to the same condition.

But the factory KTM rider is sure it was a one-off and ruled ou⛎t any surgical intervention.

"Not at all. I will not do any surgery," Zarco said. "Thisꦰ is not the solution and I never had this problem before. I’m not relaxed enough on the bike.

"I do not want to do this kind of operation.𒆙 The worst thing is motocross for arm-pump. The top guys are not doing the 🎃operation.

"Fabio did it but he is younger and this is his choice. I will not do that, but I will improve mys𒐪elf and find a solution to be back on the top."

Zarcꦿo had risen from 15th to tenth♐ in the early part of the Assen race, only to drop to last position by the time he retired on lap 17 of 26.

"It is a hard track for all the riders I think, because I got these꧒ problems before, but I was able to manage it the last two years [with Yamaha]," Zarco explained. "This year it was worse because the bike was moving in many other places.

"The good thing was the first🍸 ten laps and to ꧋be able to catch the others with pace and be able to overtake as a racer. But at the moment there is too much compensation which is destroying me.

"I did a few mistakes and had to stop. I had the feeli☂ng I was not holding the bike any more and before something bad happene♏d I had to stop."

Zarco now hopes he will have no repeat ⭕of the issue at the Sachsenring this weekend: "It is a totally different trackꦫ."

Team manager ike Lei💦tner said: "Johann did well in the beginning and was in the group fighting for tenth position but then dropped away dramatically. So we’ll have to analyse what happened but I could see there were riders with other brands that were suffering on track."

Team-mate Pol Espargaro battled a 💦h🌠and injury on his way to eleventh place.