MotoGP introduced Sprint races this year, and after a full season, opinions are diverse. Johann Zarco believes that these better prepare riders for the main races but also end up trivializing the actual race moment.
The Frenchman explained that this new format retires the unique character to the MotoGP races: ‘I’ve been happy that I could live it well. The Sprint races didn’t help me a lot because I didn’t get many points from it. But it prepares you so well for the next day. And I expected it and I still have the same feeling. Now starting a race it looks like normal that you are going to do your job, because we did so many starts. It’s not anymore this unique moment. When you were doing 15 races in a season you had time to come back home and get this energy. A race on Sunday was unique, now it’s not. But everything becomes normal in the life, so that’s why even a MotoGP race now is normal’.
Asked if he likes that feeling, Zarco replied: ‘For the pressure yes, and also as a human you have the obligation to be very, very strong, because it means you are ready to do it all the time. It prepares your mind to be very, very strong. I like this, but you lose this mystic things’.