Zarco To Stay With Lcr For Two More Years

I'm with you. As I live in Belgium and understand French I have had the opportunity of watching some interviews with him. He's quite special. For example, he was practicing in a circuit in Northern Spain and was caught booking some riding slots queuing up like everybody else, no fuss, no diva attitude and he ate with the others in the cantine. A french motovlogger with quite some following, Lolo Cochet, took Zarco off-season with him on a weekend trip on some Multistradas V4s (Zarco was under contract from Ducati-Parmac at that time). It was in the middle of the winter, the streets were icy and there was snow in some parts. Zarco was travelling with his guitar... First thing Zarco did when he got on the MS was taking off all electronic aids and there's some footing showing him riding that heavy motorcycle supermoto style, sliding into corners in those conditions. He cooked pasta for the team and played guitar and sang, quite a likeable bloke.
But you're obviously right, never mind whether he's a nice guy or not, that's not the point. He's a very good and highly analytical rider. The other day I watched an episode of "Inside Lenovo Ducati", it was during the Brno Grand Prix, it was often raining and several times Marc Márquez would ask "what is Zarco's tire choice", that says a lot when the best rider in the circuit looks to another rider when the conditions are such that the rider makes more of a difference than the machine.

 

Well, the bloke is French and rides a Darmah SSD to work... What’s not to like, eh?

https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2021/09/09/zarco-rides-1981-900ss-darmah-over-900km-to-aragon/185063

 

I cross my fingers for a lot of wet motogp races in the coming years...