Johann Zarco was far from his best at the GP of the Americas, and a lot of that was due to the fact that he finished prematurely… and because of a problem with his Honda RC213V. What’s more, the Frenchman, formerly of Pramac Racing, asked for… a different way of looking at development from another perspective.
The #5 spoke about his performance and revealed that he had a problem with his bike that forced him to retire after six laps: ‘I try to do my best and I did that this weekend. In the race I had a technical problem, something seemed to have got stuck in the rear and I couldn’t go any further, there was a lot of vibration and I had to stop so I wasn’t risking anything. I wanted to do at least 20 laps and get more information but I wasn’t able to do it’.
He then reaffirmed the need not to be negative in his thoughts about the team and performance, clarifying that there is, however, a need to take another look at the way forward: ‘We don’t have to be pessimistic, we have to understand things and we have the ability on the part of the people to do that, but perhaps we have to look at it in another way, from another angle’ he emphasised.