“Always good to be the first Honda”: Johann Zarco growing stronger at LCR
Fourth in Qatar, updates in Jerez: Johann Zarco sees progress and wants to stay🅠 with Honda.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Johann Zarco is confident that Honda’s long MotoGP rebuilding pr🔥ocess is finally starting to pay off.
The LCR rider heads to this weekend’s Spanish Grand P💖rix at Jerez on the back of the factory’s best result since Marc Marquez’s departure.
Zarco’s fourth place in Qatar marked the highest Sunday finish for Honda in over a year and c🅠ontinued his strong run of form in 2025, leaving him sixth in the MotoGP world championship and firmly established as the top RCV rider.
“Sure, it’s pretty important,” Zarco said when asked if the results carry extra ⭕weight with his contract up at the e🌠nd of the season - and a potential factory Honda seat opening in 2026.
“I know I’m doing good things with Honda. With 𝓡wh♎ere I am in my career, I want to continue with Honda, which will be the best way.
“Also S꧅uzuka [8 Hours] is something that Honda likes, and they see that I’m enjoying it too.
“So yeah, it’s always good to be the fir෴st Honda rider, but most of all now to get🦹 close to the top guys.
“It’s always warmly wel⛦come the P5 [before Vinales' penalty moved him to 4th]. But to build it from the first race to now, with only one mista🐈ke in Austin, it’s positive.”
Zarco now looks ahead to Jerez - where Honda i🌳s expected to introduce long-awaited updates, either during the grand prix weekend or post-race test on Monday.
“We’ll see - we have some updates from H𝓰onda in Jerez,” he said. “I don’t know if we’ll have them during the race weekend 🌸or just for the test.
“But what we want, what the technicians want for a bit, it’s coming now in Jerez. So maybe an oppo🐠rtunity to find a better setup,🎃 to get closer.”
Although the RCV’s top speed deficit is well known, the Frenchman pinpointed corner entry performance as a w💫eakness for Hon🔯da and one he believes the Jerez layout will expose - but also help address.
“Maybe slowing down on the last part of the corner [entry] is what is still missing for us, and Jerez is typically that,” Zarco explained. “That’s whꦗy Pecco is very strong there.
“But now that I know and understand better this characteristic of track and of riding, I hope I will be able to manage the same type of wee൲kend [as Qatar] - looking at the top five or confirmiꦛng the top ten if other riders are also feeling pretty good.”
Now in his ninth MotoGP season, Zarco says his recent workꦡ with Honda has helped him reconnect with a level of control and precision he last felt during his Moto2 championship-winning years.
“I’m changing things and I’m happy t༒hat what I wanted to change is starting to pay [off],” he said.
“So it’s a good version of the new things I want to do. Maybe the best version was this feeling of being focused on the line, just repeating what I know - that was the time of Moto2, because I never had this time again in🦂 MotoGP.
“And I believe that making a step back with Honda from last year to rebuild somet𝓰hing, now I have the opportunity to enjoy even more and see that I’m very close to something… top.”

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