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    ‘That’s the problem: try to race without opening the gas’ – Johann Zarco: its just…

    Jeremiah TerkulaBy Jeremiah TerkulaAugust 19, 2024No Comments3 Mins Read
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    Honda’s struggles in MotoGP show no signs of ending. This Saturday, Johann Zarco was the best of the manufacturer’s riders in the Sprint race of the Austrian GP, but he couldn’t finish better than 15th, finding it difficult to be competitive even while… accelerating.

    The Frenchman from LCR Honda told the press that the performance ended up falling short of expectations: ‘I’ve been angry after the qualifying and after the race, because the good job from Friday, even from Saturday morning, doing much more laps with quality, much better performance every lap, gave me the hope to have a better performance in the race. But in the qualifying I was 17th after doing the best I could. So we have such a limit on this bike, which every time you try to do more, you cannot, and you have the same result at the end of the qualifying. And in the race it was one of the worst condition of the weekend, maybe with the heat. The grip condition was really difficult to handle’.

    Zarco then said: ‘I tried to follow Fabio [Quartararo], I made a mistake, and then after that mistake I tried to resist and also Raúl [Fernández] overtook me. I couldn’t follow him. So we lost too much time at the beginning of the race, trying to following the others doing mistake. And at the end of the race we have a smaller gap compared to the top guys or even the top ten. It really means that when the tyre is fresh and has a potential, the bike is not able to use this potential. So, yes, we lost less time at the end of the race, but just because we are not able to use the full potential of the tyre at the beginning. The first third of the race is the most difficult and is the one that we are losing most time’.

    The #5 admitted that he would have to deal with this situation in Sunday’s race at Spielberg as well: ‘In the main race I have to accept that we will lose time at the beginning of the race, but then try to find a good balance on the bike to be super constant and hope to close the line of the lap time with the others after the half race. And from there, maybe recover positions and get a decent result’.

    Asked if the struggles are related to the rear tyre, Zarco replied: ‘It’s not the rear grip, because if so with a new tyre we would gain performance. We slide, we are not turning enough. We cannot do any mistake, if we do a mistake then we try to get out of the corner and the bike is moving or having a lot of wheelie. And you see this compared to other bikes; you cannot follow anyone. I could follow Pol Espargaró in the qualifying, that was the difference. I could see I was not becoming crazy, and we miss performance when we have the throttle in our hands. And it’s a pity, because to race you have to open the throttle. Full gas, yes, but our bike is slower when we go full gas, what we do? And that’s the problem at the moment: try to race without opening the gas’.

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