LCR MotoGP team🎉 boss Lucio Cecchinello says Johann Zarco “deserves” an opportunity to race for Honda’s factory squad, but this “is not always the be🧸st situation for a rider”.

Zarco signed a two-year deal with Honda to join the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:LCR satellite team 💖last season, wiꦗth the Frenchman adjusting well to the RC213V.

He was Honda’s top rider in the 🔯standings last year in 17th and scored its best race results, while in 2025 he has already been able to qualify on the front row and finish sixth last t🍌ime out in Argentina.

With his deal with Honda expiring this year and a seat currently free at the factory HRC team for 2026 with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luca Marini’s contract running out, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Johann Zarco said on Thursday at the Americas Grand Prix that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:a step up “can be very nice”.

Asked during the MotoGP w♒orld feed on Friday during FP1 at COTA if he thought Zarco deserved a factory team move with Honda, Cecchinello said: “I mean, he deserves for sur🐈e an opportunity.

“From our side, it’s a bit too🦋 early to discuss about the next year.

“But d൩efinite🍷ly it’s a matter we will discuss with him, with his manager, with Honda in the next couple of months.”

Cecchinello says H▨onda will have final say on its rider line-up for 2026, but stressed that LCR has full machinery and development parity with the factory.

Keen to retain Zarco, he also notes that a move to a factory set-up for a rider isn’t necessarily the best move꧂ for some rider💦s.

“Well, I believe that Honda will the f𒅌inal word,” he added.

“Honda will decide its future. From our side, we are working very well with ༒him.

“I don’t see any difference in technical treatment, any difference🐼 in technical support and material and parts development.

“And in my opinion it would be good if we coไuld continue to work altogether because it’s a matter of keeping building what we have already built.

“Sometimes it can be good, but sometimes to change the te⭕am, change the crew, being under the pressure of a factory, is not always the best situation for a rider.

“But this is just, of course, my point of view.”

Zarco has only raܫced for a factory team once in MotoGP, when he signed with KTM 🐓for the 2019 season.

That almost derailed his 🌠career, as a lack of results on the RC16 led him to quit his two-year deal ea🐠rly before KTM ousted him with immediate effect after 13 rounds.