Johann Zarco says he feels absolutely no regrets about leaving KTM as he watched his replacement in the team score a breakthr𝔍ough victory for the manufacturer in the Czech MotoGP.

The Frenchman endured an acrimonious split with the KTM just six months into a two-year MotoGP deal, 🏅with Zarco decrying the fact he couldn’t adapt to the style needed to get the most from the RC16.

A parting of ways that very nearly cost him a chance of riding anywhere in 2020, Zarco is now carving a new underdog status for himself in the Avintia 𒀰Racing team, a relationship that yielded a pole position and a run to third in Brno.

However, his return to the podium was accompanied🌳 by a maiden visit to the top for KTM via Brad Binder – who was promoted in Zarco’s place for 2020 – to beg the question whether he had any regrets about quitting the team so early into the project.

Zarco is emphatic in having no such misgivings, reiterating he didn’t feel c💧omfortable being paid well to ‘do shit’, adding that he is enjoying his racing again with Ducati.

“Brad is doing the job I was not able to do l🌌ast year and I am happy for him and KTM. No regrets at all, should 🧸I have been more patient or not? No, last year I was struggling to do a step for myself, a big decision to get some freedom and agree with myself, because I was getting money to do shit and I didn’t agree with it.

“I had to be honest with KTM, tell them I don’t want to do this and I’d prefer ꧑to quit than do badly, so it ha🐼s been a huge step but when I got the Ducati again, I got a different feeling. Maybe a bit more feeling I had in Moto2, I don’t know if it was the Latin people, but the bike gave me more confidence and from that I could work much better on myself.”

Both products of Aki Ajo’s guidance in Moto2, Zarco is full of praise for Binder’s performance and says KTM is lucky to have such a talent on its 𒁃hands.

“That’s perfect for KTM they have Brad, he showed in Moto2 he was the one whe🎐n it was big problems to get over issues and win races. Maybe the bike made a huge step but the MotoGP bike is never the perfect one, but he could ride it better and he won.”