And Zarco, who delighted Ducati with Avintia's first MotoGP pole and podium this season, is sure that whatever happens he'll be upgraded from the year-old GP19 to latest GP20, meaning he will be moving to either the Factory team or Pramac. Dovizioso announced during the Austrian Grand Prix weekend in August that he would not be extending his stay with Ducati beyond the 2020 season. It was as the Honda door appeared to be closing on Zarco that rumours of an Avintia Ducati chance emerged, with a subtext of this being the method by which Ducati could assess Zarco to see whether he might have a bigger role in its longer-term future. Already what we created this season will be useful next year. “But during the weekend, the winds changed and a lot of things were turned upside down. A rider who has been tried out by Suzuki (where he tested while in Moto2), Yamaha, KTM and Honda, but ultimately now employed by none of them through a combination of career mismanagement, underperformance and poor attitude? F1 video: The latest on the 2021 driver market - Who will land the final seats? Further guarantees have been given for 2020, with Zarco revealing he will be able to take his crew chief Marco Rigamonti (Ducati race winner with Andrea Iannone) to whichever team he is placed at next season. We have detected that you are using an adblocker browser plugin to disable advertising from loading on our website. The extent of his KTM troubles was such that it raised question marks over all he had achieved beforehand. Avintia Racing’s rider line-up remains somewhat up in the air given one of its riders with a contract - Tito Rabat - has intimated he could walk away from MotoGP at the end of the year anyway.
Zarco meanwhile broke a bone in his wrist in Austria. "It's almost sure that I can move up with the bike because the job I did was good and also the information I am giving they are happy with.

UPDATE: Avintia's Ruben Xaus confirms Johann Zarco will leave the team at the end of the season (for either Pramac or the Factory Ducati squad) and that Enea Bastianini is almost certain to be his replacement. "I'm not stressed because I already have confirmation that I'm staying with Ducati and with something more in the evolution. While its talisman - Miguel Oliveira - moves on to the factory outfit though, Tech 3 inherits its own race winning rider in Danilo Petrucci, who will hope a change of scenery will reignite the form that at his best has seen him not only step on the podium, but top it.
Zarco had spurned Honda to choose the ambitious and well-funded but still fledgling KTM project for his first works MotoGP deal this year, having been the hottest property in the previous round of contract talks following his pair of Moto2 titles and startling first two seasons in MotoGP with Tech3 Yamaha – during which he took four poles, six podiums and twice finished sixth in the championship. KTM then accelerated that process and dropped him from its race line-up a month later. “I could see that Jorge was no longer in sync, so even though I didn’t know what his future was going to be, I set out to play this card,” recalled Zarco in his motogp.com interview. While you’ll need to focus to imagine him in anything other than Yamaha blue, Valentino Rossi’s switch to the satellite Petronas SRT squad makes more sense now than it did in January when his Factory exit was confirmed.

Either way, both riders have already been assured that they will be given new Ducati contracts for next season. Le Mans was great for Honda, Danilo Petrucci took his second MotoGP victory in an extraordinary wet French Grand Prix at Le Mans as Alex Marquez gave Honda its first 2020 podium in second, Franco Morbidelli says the French GP at Le Mans will be a "nightmare" for Yamaha riders having to charge through the pack, after a poor qualifying for himself and Valentino Rossi, Suzuki's title contender Joan Mir paid for the GSX-RR's qualifying weakness at Le Mans, but it may be a necessary evil, Miguel Oliveira has branded fellow sophomore MotoGP rider Francesco Bagnaia “childish” after a run-in between the pair during qualifying for the French Grand Prix at Le Mans. He hadn’t even started a MotoGP race with the factory Honda squad before he was siphoned off to LCR for 2021, but Alex Marquez has the satellite outfit to look forward to next season. It was a suitably odd and dramatic last twist to a year in which Zarco and Jorge Lorenzo’s tribulations triggered a tumultuous rider market at a time when the line-ups were supposed to be settled under MotoGP’s two-year contract cycles. Andrea Dovizioso may have finished second in the championship for a third straight year, but there was no hint of a real title challenge in 2019 as Marquez dominated and Dovizioso was notably more willing to criticise the Ducati than before. Our aim is to create the best motorsport coverage that appeals to die-hard fans as well as those who are new to the sport. The days of being satisfied with shock long-shot underdog title bids are over again.

What if Nico Rosberg hadn't retired - would the 2020 F1 title fight be better? In order to view this page, we request that you disable adblock in your plugin settings. “I had no plan B,” he readily admitted in an interview with the official MotoGP website. To get the 2021 opportunities he feels he deserves, Zarco has to impress off and on track in ’20. Petrucci expects 10-rider podium battle in French GP Ducati's Danilo Petrucci expects "10 riders can fight for the podium" in Sunday's MotoGP French Grand Prix at Le Mans 1602352526 MotoGP How MotoGP title rivals were spooked into lacklustre races, Petrucci holds off Alex Marquez in amazing wet Le Mans race, Morbidelli, Rossi facing Le Mans overtaking ‘nightmare’, Suzuki’s qualifying trade-off looking costly at Le Mans, Oliveira hits out at ‘childish’ Bagnaia after Le Mans clash, Kvyat calls out ‘unprofessional’ Albon after Eifel GP clash, Schumacher and Hamilton’s best, worst, oddest and wettest wins, Wolff: Hamilton ‘nothing’ like the driver who joined Mercedes, Will Ricciardo regret leaving Renault? Were those stunning first two MotoGP seasons just the product of the confidence-inspiring, compliant older Yamaha chassis run by Tech3? "So it's a kind of logic; if I fight for podiums then clearly I can deserve this bike. What if Nico Rosberg hadn't retired - would the 2020 F1 title fight be better? At that moment, Zarco’s options appeared very limited – with rejoining the Yamaha fold in a test role seen as his best, and perhaps only, bet. Contact Crash.Net Privacy Policy Get Crash RSS Newsfeeds About Crash.Net. That would be more in keeping with Zarco’s overall career story so far than his Avintia chance ending in ignominy. But his stock plunged immediately as he struggled to get to grips with the KTM, being left standing by team-mate Pol Espargaro and attracting blunt criticism from the firm’s motorsport chief Pit Beirer for both his performances and his attitude. Given this is only his fifth season of GP racing entirely - quite a bit less than any of his rivals - it’s credit to Suzuki for taking him under its wing. "So they are losing this very important rider, they need a strong rider like this and I would love to be at this level as soon as possible. Though a 13th place and two crashes was not a great return from his LCR stint, he had stepped onto the notoriously awkward Honda and immediately been close to team-mate Cal Crutchlow’s pace and performed at a similar level to Nakagami’s usual season-long positions. Both have topped the podium this season and while there is perhaps still a little more polish needed from the pair to follow those successes up week in, week out, they are proof a bit of nurturing and faith goes a long way to bring out best in tomorrow’s generation today. The 2021 MotoGP World Championship grid is almost complete following Ducati’s confirmation that Jack Miller and Pecco Bagnaia will compete in the scarlet colours of the Factory team, with Johann Zarco and rookie Jorge Martin representing the satellite Pramac Racing outfit too. This is clearly the target, to fight for a championship, when I will be ready. Reload this page. During the 2019 MotoGP season finale weekend at Valencia in mid-November, Johann Zarco was scathing about Avintia Ducati. Get involved and comment on content. And some clear clues for how to solve its problems. Watching rivals fumble MotoGP title fight motivates Marquez comeback bid, Valentino Rossi, Joan Mir join Portimao test line-up, Check out the Crash MotoGP YouTube channel - CLICK HERE, Alex Marquez stamps mark on MotoGP with superb 18th to 2nd charge, Fabio Quartararo: When Joan overtook me I said 'no way...', 2020 French MotoGP, Le Mans Bugatti Circuit - Race Results, Valentino Rossi: 'To crash like this is the worst thing', “It felt like nobody trusted me” - Petrucci vindicated, win not down to weather, 2020 French Moto2 Grand Prix, Le Mans - Race Results, Petrucci thrills, Rossi spills, Suzuki chills: French MotoGP Winners & Losers, Memories of 2018 as Pol Espargaro notches up KTM’s fifth podium of 2020, Kvyat hits out at “unprofessional” Albon after collision in F1 Eifel GP, Sebastian Vettel: P11 not a true reflection of pace at F1 Eifel GP, F1 VIDEO: Lewis Hamilton equals Michael Schumacher's wins record. F1 video: Why Sebastian Vettel is perfect for Aston Martin. Then it would be complicated for Ducati! Moreover, he’ll have his protege and friend Franco Morbidelli on the other side of the garage in a somewhat less pressured environment that could well bring out the best in The Doctor even at this stage in his career. "I hope it’ll be up to Ducati to decide because we are both fighting for the podium.".

Your activation email is on its way. It would be Marco Rigamonti and the guy in charge of electronic," Zarco said. He pairs up with team-mate Maverick Vinales, who enters into his fifth season with Yamaha but his first with someone other than Rossi fighting for Yamaha’s affections. It was a suitably odd and dramatic last twist to a year in which Zarco and Jorge Lorenzo’s tribulations triggered a tumultuous rider market at a time when the line-ups were supposed to be … What a difference a year makes for Tech 3 Racing, who having suffered the growing pains of its switch from Yamaha to KTM machinery in 2019, has burst into a competitive outfit in its own right for 2020.

They told me that the Avintia team was going to completely change their status. So it's good for me but also good for them to get in the future my information on the new [GP20] bike," he said. What a tumultuous proces it has been for Ducati to come to a decision its 2021 rider line-up as approaches to the likes of Quartararo, Vinales, Rins and Mir fell flat, before Andrea Dovizioso called its bluff by announcing his exit despite - right now - only having his sofa as a seat for 2021. "Ducati didn't say that to me, but I want to see it like this. Alex Marquez nearly winning. He has been helped by the French Grand Prix promoter’s eagerness to keep him on the grid, a cause Dorna fully supports for the sake of the French market – amid a perception that 2019 rookie sensation Fabio Quartararo has an insufficient following at present in his home country because he left for Spain too early in his career, making Zarco the key to Le Mans crowd figures.


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