Johann Zarco, this hero whom the public of the French Grand Prix of MotoGP was waiting
The Crachin that fell on Sunday, May 11, afternoon, on the Bugatti circuit of Le Mans did not show off the enthusiasm of the public of the French Grand Prix of MotoGP. It was even the exact contrary. Because under his conditions, Johann Zarco excels. What the Cannois pilot of the Honda-LCR team, the satellite stable of the Japanese manufacturer, proved by winning the event.
This moment “Magic” For the interested party, who was arguing on the 150e Grand Prix of his career in the Queen category, was just as much for the 120,000 people massaged near the Sarthois route. Sixty and one years old that a Frenchman had not imposed himself on the national round. The last one was Pierre Monneret, on a Gilera 500 cm3, in 1954, when the event was still argued on the triangular circuit of Reims-Guyeux, in the Marne.
This victory also occurs where Johann Zarco had obtained the first podium in his career among the elite, in 2017. At the time, he said he was “Coming to MotoGP so that it sounds La Marseillaise ». He had to wait nine years. As a symbol, his dream materialized before the eyes of his parents, who had never seen their son running until then, in seventeen years of career. “The motorcycle is such a warrior sport that I had never wanted to mix my family with that”he confided to Monde A few days before the Le Mans appointment.
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