Johann Zarco

Johann Zarco

Nation:	France
Motorcycle world championship
Status:	active ( MotoGP )
Start number:	5
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR 194 16 24 16
World title:	2
World Cup points:	1771.5
Podiums:	48
Status: 2019 Argentine Grand Prix
According to class (es): 125 cc class First start: Qatar Grand Prix 2009 Last start: 2011 Valencia Grand Prix Constructors 2009–2010  Aprilia  • 2011  Derbi World Cup balance Vice World Champion ( 2011 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 50 1 4th 5 World Cup points: 371.5 Podiums: 11 Moto2 class First start: 2012 Qatar Grand Prix Last start: 2016 Valencia Grand Prix Constructors 2012  Motobi  • 2013  Suter  • 2014 Caterham-Suter • 2015–2016  Kalex World Cup balance World Champion ( 2015 , 2016 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 88 15th 15th 7th World Cup points: 1010 Podiums: 30th MotoGP class First start: 2017 Qatar Grand Prix Constructors 2017–2018  Yamaha  • 2019 KTM  • 2020 Ducati World Cup balance World Cup sixth ( 2017 , 2018 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 56 - 5 4th World Cup points: 390 Podiums: 7th

Johann Zarco (born July 16, 1990 in Cannes , France ) is a French motorcycle racer and two-time world champion in the Moto2 class.

Career

Zarco began his racing career on so-called pocket bikes . In 2003 he met his manager Laurent Fellon. Through him he got the opportunity to take part in championships all over Europe .

In his first season in 2004, he finished fourth overall. A year later he was runner-up in the junior category. In 2006 Zarco confirmed his performance and was runner-up in the senior category. In 2007 he started in the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup . He finished the season with seven podiums in eight races (including four wins) as champion. Zarco is the only Frenchman to date to win this championship.

Because of this success, he joined the “Red Bull MotoGP Academy” in 2008 to compete in the Spanish 125 cc championship . Zarco left this during the season. He accepted an invitation from the Gabrielli team for the Italian 125 cc championship and competed in the races in Vallelunga on an Aprilia GP. Zarco won both runs.

Motorcycle world championship

Zarco 2011 on Derbi

125 cc / Moto3 class

In 2009 Johann Zarco started his first season in the motorcycle world championship . He was part of the WTR San Marino team on an Aprilia. He stayed with this team in the 2010 season . In 2011 , Zarco switched to Aki Ajo's team , who had become world champion with Marc Márquez a year earlier , and rode a Derbi . He started the season with sixth place in the Qatar Grand Prix , followed by his first podium at the Spanish Grand Prix , which he repeated at the Portuguese Grand Prix . After finishing fifth in France , he crossed the finish line first in Catalonia , but was only classified sixth due to a penalty for an unfair maneuver against the Spaniard Nicolás Terol . At the Grand Prix of Great Britain he achieved his best result to date, finishing second behind Jonas Folger . Zarco took his first pole position in Italy and, after being in the lead for a long time, finished second behind Terol in the race. At the following German Grand Prix he crossed the finish line at the same time as Héctor Faubel , but since Faubel had set the fastest lap, this was considered the winner. At the Czech Grand Prix he made a mistake while in the lead in the last corner, so that Sandro Cortese won the race. At the San Marino Grand Prix, too , Zarco was in the lead for almost the entire race, but was overtaken by Terol after the last corner. Finally, he achieved his first Grand Prix victory at the Japanese Grand Prix in Motegi . At the end of the season he was runner-up in the eight-liter class with 262 points behind Nicolás Terol .

Moto2 class

In 2012 Zarco switched to the Moto2 class and drove for the JIR Moto2 team. At the end of the season he finished tenth overall with 94 points. In 2013 he got his first podium in the Moto2 class on a Suter with two third places in the Iodaracing team . The 2014 season went Zarco in AirAsia Caterham team. That year he achieved four third places and his first pole position in the Moto2 class.

Back in Aki Ajo's team, Zarco rides a Kalex in 2015 . Since the only remaining competitor Esteve Rabat could not take part in the race of the Japanese Grand Prix due to an injury, Zarco became world champion in the Moto2 class for the first time in his career. With 352 points at the end of the season, he also set a new record in this class.

In 2016 , Zarco stayed with Ajo Motorsport and won the second last race of the season to win the Moto2 class for the second time. He is the first in the history of this class to win the world title twice.

MotoGP class

Since the season 2017 he drives in the MotoGP class and was twice sixth in the World Cup, both times for the tech 3 - Yamaha team. 2019 he moved to KTM - factory team . At the end of 2019 , his contract was terminated. Brad Binder took his place. In 2020 Zarco moved to the Avintia - Ducati team. His teammate is Esteve Rabat . At the Czech Grand Prix , Zarco drove from pole position to third place, which is the first podium for his team in the ninth season in the premier class.

statistics

title

• Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup Champion on KTM : 2007
• Moto2 - World Champion on Kalex : 2015 , 2016
• 16 Grand Prix victories

In the motorcycle world championship

(Status: Grand Prix of Styria 2020)

season	class	team	motorcycle	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	Nice Race laps	Points	position
2009	125 cc	WTR San Marino team	Aprilia	16	-	-	-	-	-	32.5	20th
2010	125 cc	WTR San Marino team	Aprilia	17th	-	-	-	-	1	77	11.
2011	125 cc	Avant-AirAsia-Ajo	Derbi	17th	1	6th	4th	4th	4th	262	2.
2012	Moto2	JIR Moto2	Motobi	17th	-	-	-	-	-	95	10.
2013	Moto2	Came Iodaracing Project	Suter	17th	-	-	2	-	2	141	9.
2014	Moto2	AirAsia Caterham	Caterham-Suter	18th	-	-	4th	1	-	146	6th
2015	Moto2	Ajo Motorsport	Kalex	18th	8th	5	1	7th	1	352	World Champion
2016	Moto2	Ajo Motorsport	Kalex	18th	7th	2	1	7th	4th	276	World Champion
2017	MotoGP	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	18th	-	2	1	2	4th	174	6th
2018	MotoGP	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	18th	-	2	1	2	-	158	6th
2019	MotoGP	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	13	-	-	-	-	-	30th	18th
	MotoGP	LCR Honda Idemitsu	Honda	3	-	-	-	-	-
2020	MotoGP	Avintia Racing	Ducati	5	-	-	1	1	-	30th	12.
total				195	16	17th	15th	24	16	1773.5	2 world titles

Web links

Commons : Johann Zarco  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Johann Zarco on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).
• Official website (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.speedweek.com/moto2/news/82678/Japan-Aus-fuer-Rabat-Zarco-ist-Weltmeister.html
2. ↑ MotoGP: Johann Zarco terminates contract with KTM
3. ↑ MotoGP: Johann Zarco and KTM split up early