The widely expected agreement between the Frenchman who leaves Ducati Pramac to join Cecchinello’s team on the Tokyo bike from 2024 has been announced
Johann Zarco goes to Honda Lcr. The news, widely in the air because the French rider had also spoken about it openly after Sunday’s race in Austria, when Ducati Pramac announced their divorce at the end of the season, was made official by Lucio Cecchinello’s team.
the biennial of the turning point
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For Zarco, fifth in the 2023 World Championship, there is a two-year agreementprecisely the type of offer that prompted him to accept the Honda LCR proposal, while the Borgo Panigale manufacturer would not have gone beyond a one-year contract extension at Pramac, with a place in the Superbike World Championship the following season.
paired with nakagami
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The French rider will replace Alex Rins, who will leave Honda LCR at the end of the year to join the official Yamaha team with Fabio Quartararo, and will join the Japanese Takaaki Nakagami, confirmed by Cecchinello. These are the words of Cecchinello in announcing the agreement: “We are happy to welcome Johann to the LCR team: it is a return to the team after a short period together in 2019 in which we have already been able to see his potential and his ethics work – says the team manager – There are still many races to face this season, but we can’t wait to start this new project in 2024”.