Johann Zarco singled out Honda’s new carbon fibre swingarm as offering a clear step forward during his debut on the prototype 🌠part in Monday’s Aragon test.

HRC test rider Aleix Espargaro, who has helped develop the composite swingarm behind closed door🌜s, signalled the🦂 part was ready for the race riders during a wild-card appearance at the previous Silverstone round.

Zarco and Joan Mir ♛duly got their chance to 🍸try it at the official test.

Honda test carbon fibre swingarm at MotoGP test

“Many laps today,” said 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Johann Zarco, who was 17th fastest. “I was not able to do big step in lap time, but that was not the target. The꧒ target was to try all thes🌟e things.

“The biggest thing we have tried is the carbon swingarm, which was very interesting. We got a better performance with it. Now we will have to🔯 wait a bit to get it on the bike [in a race weekend].”

Pressed on if he was happyᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ with the test, after a tough race weekend, the Frenchman replied:

“Yeah, for example this swingarm… ‘wow’, that was the thing working the best. So I'm happy that🧸 this big part of the bike, where sometimes the comments of the rider is not huge, for me it was nice. So this was good.

“We gained a lot in acceleration, but al🐎so on the braking, ▨we have better control of the rear grip. Immediately, the lap time was better.”

The only bad news is the timeframe 🔜needed to create enoughꦫ carbon fibre swingarms.

“I think it will be for the overseas races. So𓆏 I need🀅 to wait a bit,” he said.

Meanwhile, Zarco was coyer on the o🐠ther, less vis𒁏ible RC213V developments.

“Then we have tested things that we have tested already in Jerez, but it's very technical th🅷ings on the bik𒆙e.

“It's something that Honda is developing wh🧸ich I thinkಌ can open some new doors that I hope will give us advantage for next year.”