Johann Zarco ended the MotoGP season with another points finish, securing 14th place at the Solidarity GP of Barcelona. However, the LCR Honda rider described the result as bittersweet due to a suboptimal tyre choice.
As he explained, opting for the hard rear tyre proved to be the wrong call: ‘I made a wrong choice for the rear tyre. My front tyre was the best tyre I was feeling on, and I didn’t get any problem during the race. But the rear tyre, it was expected it wouldn’t have an extra performance at the beginning, so it was expected to struggle at the beginning, but then get stronger at the end. But I wasn’t stronger at the end, so it means I lost time at the beginning. It seems that the soft would have worked’.
According to Zarco, the loss of performance in the hard tyre was similar to the soft one: ‘It was good to try. I know that I control the hard rear tyre well, but on this track it doesn’t help. It was good to see the others performing well with the soft one, and they lost performance at the end. But we lost the same performance with the hard one. So, I was a bit disappointed with this wrong choice, but you need to take decisions, go and try’.
Despite the setback, the Frenchman found positives in the season’s final round: ‘At least I finished in the points, and we did a good weekend. The Friday was very positive’.
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