LCR’s Johann Zarco believes a strong showing at the 2024 MotoGP Australian Grand Prix will act as confirmation of the improvements Honda made to i🍨ts bike 🌌at Misano.

The Frenchman returns to the scene of hi🎐s maiden MotoGP victory, when Zarco passed former Pramac team-mate Jorge𝕴 Martin on the last lap of the 2023 Australian GP to finally break his duck.

While a repeat is not expected owing to the form of the Honda, Zarco co꧋mes to Australia brimming with confidence from what he has seen from the RC213V in recent rounds following updates to the package at the Misano test last month.

With the Phillip Island circuit, in theory, playing up to 🎃the strengths of the Honda much better than the previous Japanese GP at Motegi, Zarco believes a strong showing ꧑this weekend will confirm the bike’s true potential.

“Let’s see how we canꦕ perform th෴is weekend,” he said on Thursday in the pre-event press conference.

“With these long corners, I hope we can have the chance to get𓆉 closer to the ot🌼hers.

“Clea♌rly, the last two GPs gave a good boost to me and 🧜the team. Even in Japan, where Friday didn’t start so well, and then the two races we had were interesting.

“𒅌And here, it’s seems it’s not a track where there are accelerations with 🌃wheelie problems.

“So,✃ I hope we can then lose less time compared to the others, and if this theory is working then𒁏 it means the step forward at Misano will be confirmed here.

“And this will be positive 𝕴for Honda, knowing they understand things and we can keep going forwarꦓd.”

In two of the last three rounds, Zarco has been🦩 able to get into Q2, while he achieved Honda's first top 10 grand prix finish of the year at the Indonesian round.

Honda’s steady upturn in form has also come as current Aprilia engineer 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Romano Albesiano was announced at the Japanese GP to be joining HRC as technical director for𓆉 2025.

Speaking on the various rec𝔉ent changes Honda has made, both to the bike and personnel-wise, Zarco said: “I’m confident.

“When I ♓was saying at the beginning of the year that the top 10 was possible to reach and fighting in the top 10, then during the season I clearly said ‘Ok, we need to🦄 forget this kind of target’.

“And now w꧟e have the chance to target the top 10 again. This is a good ♔motivation.

“They ar⛄e doing some changes, and anyway, the Japanese has a way to work that is very impre▨ssive.

“So, clearly the work is not🐭 something we have to do𓂃ubt.

“Then we need to understand what direction to go, and it s🧜eems like the last steps we did was a breath that ‘it might work’.”