LCR’s Johann Zarco admits he ‘thought I would be sadder’ at the end of his firꦚst MotoGP season on the Honda than he actually was.

The one-time MotoGP race winner swapped the best bike on the grಞid in the Ducati for a two-year factory🌊 contract with Honda, beginning in 2024, to ride for LCR.

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Though it won a race in 2023, Hond🍃a’s result👍s dropped off a cliff across the campaign, while the bike’s poor form led to Marc Marquez departing at the end of the season to join the Gresini Ducati squad.

Though 2024 was Honda’s third winless season in the last five, Zarco emerged as its strongest r﷽ider and showed well in the second half of the year.

Regularly a Q2 contender, Zarco also✅ scored Honda’s best result of the year with eighth in T𒁏hailand as he was able to extract the most out of numerous bike updates.

He ended the year as Honda’s top rider in 17th in the standings🍨 on 55 points.

Reflecting on his first year 🦩with HRC, Z🦂arco admits 12 months prior he expected to be feeling worse about his season than he does.

“It’s more positive than what I expected, if I have to analyse this end of the season,”ꦿ Zarco said last November in Barcelo🌺na.

“And also my feeling, I felt one year ago I would ha༒ve been more sad and I’m much happier than what I expected.

“So, that’s good. It came when I began to do better results in Indonesia, and then when I could rꦏepeat these results and then I could work on my riding style.

“And thi🍸s work was giving answers on the track, so this gave me more motivation that I’ve opened new doors that I’m su🃏re I can get very strong, discovering these new things.”

Zarco remains with LCR for the 2025 season in a largely 🎀unchanged line-up for Honda, with its factory team roster🀅 of Joan Mir and Luca Marini also staying put.

Somkiat Chantra will step up from Moto2 to the second LCR seat alongsideܫ Zarco for hi꧂s rookie season, as he replaces Takaaki Nakagami.

Nakagami has movedꦚ over to Honda’s test team alongside Aleix Es🌠pargaro.