MotoGP Data dominance · tyre · race pace
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Johann Zarco

France

36
Age
16.06.1990

Career

Pace and style

Pace

MetricValueUsual rangeRankn
Race pace+0.66%0.42–1.0219/54190
One-lap pace (qualifying)+0.81%0.50–1.2513/54141
Long run (practice)+0.87%0.51–1.3520/59313
Fast lap (practice)+0.82%0.44–1.2718/60442

Percentage above the fastest rider of each session (median over all their sessions): 0% would mean always being the fastest. The usual range goes from their good quartile to their bad one. Rank: among all riders with enough data.

Style

MetricValueUsual rangeRankn
Consistency (pace variation)0.30%0.21–0.4129/54162
Places gained grid → finish0.00-4.00–2.0063/82174
Hides pace for qualifying+0.04-0.55–0.6922/49145
Hides pace for the race+0.25-0.51–0.7316/3866
Qualifying specialist (+) or diesel (−)+0.02—19/43141
Races better than qualifies−0.55-2.39–1.9045/74141
Top speed362.4 km/h—17/6415881

Descriptive: how the rider has done so far, not a prediction. "Hides pace" is not very stable from one year to the next: always look at the usual range.

Race and qualifying

Racecraft by phase

−0.81
Start
−0.40
First laps
−0.24
End of race
−0.63
Total

Positions gained (+) or lost (−) in each phase versus what the rider’s position would suggest, over 30 races. Descriptive.

Races better than qualifies?

Positions finished better (+) or worse (−) than the starting position suggests, per season.

SeasonBeats the gridn
2026−2.636
2025−0.5116
2024−1.8418
2023+1.0616
2022−0.2615
2021−0.6115
2020−0.0211
2019−1.1911
2018−0.7016
2017+0.0417

Q2 risk

2%
Q2 with best lap cancelled
4%
Disastrous Q2

Over 83 Q2 sessions since 2021. Disaster = best lap more than 1% slower than the others' median.

Tyres

Tyre management

Metrics/lapUsual rangeRankn
Degradation in practice · Medium+0.3440.134–0.41320/349
Degradation in practice · Wet-Soft+0.6670.641–0.6937/84
Race degradation (fuel-corrected)+0.0380.009–0.07026/54162
Pace loss in the race+0.019-0.009–0.04728/54162

Seconds lost per lap over a run. Lower is better: better tyre management.

Tyres race by race

GPFront / rearRel. paceDeg. s/lapGrid→Pos.
2026 ARAMedium / Medium+0.99%−0.0549→15
2026 AUTMedium / Medium+0.67%+0.06710→10
2026 BRAHard / Medium+0.71%−0.01810→9
2026 FRASoft / Soft+0.79%+0.03110→11
2026 RSMMedium / Medium+0.99%−0.02514→—
2026 SPAMedium / Medium+0.45%+0.0722→7
2026 THASoft / Medium+0.73%+0.07312→11
2026 USAMedium / Medium+0.62%−0.05915→—
2025 AMESoft / Medium+0.53%−0.03715→17
2025 ARAMedium / Medium+1.03%−0.14412→—

★ = chose the minority compound. Degradation includes fuel and traffic: only compare within the same race.

Circuits, team and injuries

Strongest and weakest circuits

Over one lap · Weak at: ITA (−4.01)

In races · Strong at: THA (+0.47) · Weak at: ITA (−0.27), RSM (−0.34), AUT (−0.37), INA (−0.49)

Affinity: how much better (+) or worse (−) the rider performs at this circuit versus their own average, in percentage points of gap. Only cases with enough signal are shown.

Against the teammate

SeasonTeamTeammateRaceGridPoints
2026Castrol Honda LCRCal Crutchlow0–00–045–0
2023Prima Pramac RacingJorge Martin5–146–14225–428
2022Pramac RacingJorge Martin9–119–11166–152
2021Pramac RacingJorge Martin9–55–9173–111
2020Hublot Reale AvintiaTito Rabat11–312–277–10
2019Red Bull KTM Factory RacingPol Espargaro1–153–1330–100
2018Monster Yamaha Tech 3Hafizh Syahrin16–119–0158–46
2017Monster Yamaha Tech 3Jonas Folger9–410–3174–84

Who finishes ahead in the races both started; a retirement loses to a classified finish. With fewer than 8 races together it is only indicative.

Injuries and absences

SeasonGPTypeNote
2026ITAAbsentsense cap resultat entre dos caps de setmana disputats
2026HUNAbsentsense cap resultat entre dos caps de setmana disputats
2026CZEAbsentsense cap resultat entre dos caps de setmana disputats
2026NEDAbsentsense cap resultat entre dos caps de setmana disputats
2026GERAbsentsense cap resultat entre dos caps de setmana disputats
2026GBRAbsentsense cap resultat entre dos caps de setmana disputats
2026ARAComeback2r event després de absent (GER)
2026RSMComeback2r event després de absent (GBR)