Johann Zarco singled out Honda’s new carbon fibr🅘e swingarm as offering a clear step forward during his debut on the protoꦫtype part in Monday’s Aragon test.

HRC test rider Aleix Espargaro, who has helped develop the composite swingarm behind closed doors, signalled the p🐼art was ready for the race riders during a wild-card appearance at the previous Silverstone round.

Zarco and Joan Mir duly got ꧟their c♉hance to try it at the official test.

Honda test carbon fibre swingarm at MotoGP test

“Many laps today,” said 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Johann Zarco, who was 17th fastest. “I was not able to do big step in lap time, but that was not the target. The target was to try all these things🌳.

“The biggest thing we have tried 🧸is the carbon swingarm, which was very interesting. We got a better performance with it. Now we will have to wait a bit to get it on the bike [in a ra꧅ce weekend].”

Pressed on if he was happy with the test, af🦩ter a tough race weekend, the Frenchman replied:

“Yeah, for example this swingarm… ‘wow’, that was the thing working the best. So I'm happy that this big part of the bike, where sometimes the comments of the 🌞rider is not huge, for me i𓄧t was nice. So this was good.

“We gained a lot in acceleration, bu꧑t also on the braking, we have better control of the rear grip. Immediately, the lap time was better.”

The only bad news is the timeframe needed to create enough carbon fibre swing൩arms.

“I think it will be for the overseas races. So I need to wait🧔 a bit,” he said൩.

Meanwhile, Zarco was ✱coyer on the other, less visible RC213ꦑV developments.

“Then we have tested thi𝕴ngs that we have tested already in Jerez, but it's very technical things on the bike.

“It's﷽ something that Honda is developing which I think can open some new doors that I hope will give us advantage for ☂next year.”