LCR MotoGP team boss Lucio Cecchinello says Johann ✱Zarco “deserves” an opportunity to race for Honda’s factory squad, but this “is not always the best situation for a rider”.

Zarco signed a two-year deal with Honda to join the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:LCR satellite team ﷺlast season, with the Frenchman adjusting well to the RC213V.

He was Honda’s top ridꩲer in the standings last year in 17th and scored its best race results, while in 2025 he has already been able to qualify on the front row and finish sixth last time out in Argentina.

With his deal with Honda expiring this year and a seat currently free at the factory HRC team for 2026 with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Luca Marini’s contract running out, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Johann Zarco said on Thursday at the Americas Grand Prix that 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:a step up “can be very nice”.

Asked during the MotoGP world feed on Friday dur꧑ing FP1 at COTA if he thought Zarco deserve𓆏d a factory team move with Honda, Cecchinello said: “I mean, he deserves for sure an opportunity.

“From our side, it’s a bit too early to discuss about the𒁃 next year.

“But d🧔efinitely it’s a matter we will discuss with him, with his manager, with Honda in the next couple of mon🎐ths.”

Cecchinello says Honda will have final say on its rider line-up for 2026, but stressed that LC🔜R has full machinery and development p🍎arity with the factory.

Keen to retain Zarco, he also notes that a move to a factory set-up for a rider isn’t necessarꦿily the best move for some riders.

“Well, I believe that Hond𒆙a will the final word,” he added.

“Honda will decide its future. From our side, we are w🦄orking very well with him.

“I don’t s🐻ee any difference in technical treatment, any difference in technical support a꧙nd material and parts development.

“And in my opinion it would be good if we could continue to work a🍬ltogether because it’s a matter of keeping building what we have already built.

“Sometimes it can be good, but sometimes to change the team, change the crew, being u♕nder the pressure of a factory, is not always the best situation for a rider.

“But this is just, of course, my point of view.”

Zarco has 𝔉only raced for a factory team once in MotoGP, when he signed with KTM for the 2019 sea🤡son.

That almost derailed his caree🎃r, as a 🅷lack of results on the RC16 led him to quit his two-year deal early before KTM ousted him with immediate effect after 13 rounds.