Johann Zarco started the MotoGP season with a twelfth place within the Portuguese Grand Prix. Now, he’s trying ahead to the upcoming race in Portugal, the place he hopes to be in rivalry for a top-ten end and to qualify throughout the prime twelve.
The LCR Honda rider expressed his pleasure for the Portuguese race: ‘I feel we’ll not have moist situations, solely in the present day it’s raining, and a really robust weekend. The efficiency of Marc [Márquez] final 12 months was fairly spectacular. Additionally the feedback from Honda’s employees say that right here they acquired good feedback in regards to the bike and so they had been aggressive. So I’m fairly curious to see the place we might be – realizing that Qatar wasn’t the most effective one to be aggressive or attempt to be within the prime ten. However we’re not so removed from it. So perhaps right here I can battle for this Q2 and battle for this prime ten – this may be superb and I simply hope to get higher. Understanding that I can experience nicely the bike, I count on that right here I can match nicely this sense. I bear in mind very nicely the distinction or what was goood with Ducati. So as soon as once more it will likely be a very good level to grasp the distinction. I simply hope to have nonetheless a very good feeling, however even higher to get quicker and extra aggressive than in Qatar’.
When requested about his stage of adaptation to the Honda at this second, Zarco admitted that there’s nonetheless room for enchancment: ‘It’s arduous to say, however actually we’re not utilizing 100% proper now. However like in Qatar if I may use the complete 100% or even when I acquired higher, perhaps I’d have completed tenth; it wasn’t one thing to be within the prime 5, as a result of all of the package deal will not be prepared but to do that race in low 1m53s each lap like in Qatar. However it’s regular. At the very least the actual distinction is lower than one second; perhaps six or seven tenths. So which means in case you get three tenths higher, we might be within the goal we wish. In order that’s the way in which I see the issues and I feel it’s not a nasty method’.
Lastly, the French rider praised Honda’s work technique: ‘They actually modified issues to develop in the identical method because the European manufacturers’.
