168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Johann Zarco held off Joan Mir for twelfth place and another top Honda finish in the Thailand MotoGP Sprint.

For ‘the first time this year’,⭕ the LCR rider got off to a good start, only to be shuffled to 16th later in🌳 the lap.

“I struggled too much on the first lap but not at the start,” Zarco said. “At the start, I🦋 didn't lose any positions, which is the first time this year.

“But I got a bit unlucky on the first lap because I was behind di Giannantonio who had to brake twice. The first was maybe to avoid Bezzecchi, the second to avoid Fab🌺io Quartararo.

“I was really close behind Fabio and I had🥀 to brake also. So I could not use well the good♚ start.”

Quizzed on what made the difference for his race start compared to previous e🌌vents, Zarco explained:

“I’m getting a good feeling🍌 with the clutch, but still we are not much faster and maybe the fact that I didn't lose positions is that we don't put third gear [before braking for Turn 1] here.

“We just put second gear. And you don't have time to have t꧋oo mu🅺ch wheelie.

“So maybe we reach 200km/h but not much more. And it's the acceleration from 150 to 250km/h where sometimes we loseღ a few tenths.

“Here you quickly get to the brake so that's why I think I could kee🌞p my position. But my reaction was also very good, so I was happy.”

Reflecting on the rest oꦚf the race, the Frenc⭕hman felt they had not made progress from their Friday set-up.

“For the pace, we were missing something,” he said. “I could not get the good feeling from Fr🌞iday today.

“We have tried things, but it seems we did a little sꦍtep back. So thꦅat's the situation at the moment.

“When we do well, it's hard to wish for better. As they say, sometimes ‘better is the enem🍎y of good’!

“But that’s the philosophy of racing; you always want better. And we 🧜cannot wait for things to happen.

“We have to work to make things better, but beꦆcause the [margin for] my good feeling on the bike is very thin at the moment, I lost it.

“But the positive is that I got it yesterday.”

Zarco is 17th in the world championship s✅tandings, 12 points clear of team-mate and next-best Honda rider Takaaki Nakagami.

Nakagami finished 18th in the Sprint.