Johann Zarco stepped again from among the newest Honda MotoGP components at Phillip Island to attempt to regain confidence with the RC213V.
The Le Mans winner has solely damaged the grand prix prime ten as soon as since his Silverstone podium and is now simply eight factors away from Luca Marini on the planet championship standings.
Marini and HRC team-mate Joan Mir have taken the newest updates, together with a brand new engine and swingarm, to their finest Honda outcomes. However the Frenchman, who obtained the complete bundle of components later, is but to really feel comfy.
“I’m not utilizing the brand new bike – all of the bundle of the brand new bike – as a result of I didn’t have time to set it up effectively,” Zarco stated at Phillip Island on Saturday.
“The bottom arrange for the brand new bike doesn’t work. I misplaced confidence.
“I attempted to construct it again with the previous, or an in-between, machine, ready to perhaps have extra stability within the storage with two similar bikes, to check some completely different set-ups and use the complete new bundle (once more later).
“There may be good potential with the brand new components, and we are able to see Marini is controlling it effectively. He discovered the correct issues in it, and he’s doing effectively. That is constructive, and I’m certain we are able to additionally do effectively.
“[But] in the mean time we’re placing the brand new bike on the aspect, to get again the nice confidence and a bit extra pace as a result of we are able to see I used to be again to one thing acceptable.”
Zarco completed twelfth within the Dash, instantly behind the highest Honda of Mir.
Nevertheless, his grand prix got here to an early finish with a quick accident at Flip 1.
Johann Zarco crash, 2025 Australian MotoGP
“Such a pity for this crash, the primary nook just isn’t a superb place to crash! I bought some wobble on the brakes and missed the apex and being a bit broad with the wind the bike began to slip,” he defined.
Zarco confirmed he can have two bikes with the identical (older) spec in Malaysia.
“Now we go to Malaysia and attempt to reset a bit the work within the field, having two similar bikes, to clear a bit all that we’ve completed currently.
“We’ll attempt to begin with a greater base to make my efficiency come again. However the prime ten was doable immediately.”
The Malaysian MotoGP begins on Friday morning.
