Johann Zarco at Austrian MotoGP: “Honda seem to want me more than Ducati do”
Zarco reportedly has a lucrative offer fꦇrom LCR Honda on the table for the 2024 MotoGP season.
He insists 🤪that he has a “choice” despite his Pramac Racing seat being touted for Marco Bezzecchi next year.
"Honda seem to want me more than Ducati do,” Zarco said at the Austrian🐈 MotoGP.෴
“But also, Duc🍎ati is performing well with a great bike, so I 🃏could also make this choice, in order to keep fighting at the top."
He confirmed that he 🔯hasn’t hel🐲d significant talks with Ducati about his future since the previous MotoGP round at Silverstone.
"We knew that between Silverstone and Austria there would be few discussions, so we'll see ♛what happens this weekend,” he said.
"I'm not 𝄹worried. In any case, I'll have the choice, which it's a good thing."
Zarco’s assertion th꧟at he will have a choice between Honda and Ducati is intriguing.
It had been reporte🎀d that Bezzecchi had the choice between taking Zarco’s 2024-spec bike at Pramac next year, or remaining on a 2023 bike at Mooney VR46.
Bezzecchi has said in Austria that he is hoping for “a better solution” for himself (it is believed he wants a facto🌳ry bike, and to stay at VR46).
LCR Honda have a vacancy to fi༒ll since Alex Rin෴s left for Yamaha.
Zarco’s weekend in Austria got off to the perfect start as he went fastest in the firs🍷t practice session on Friday.
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