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Johann Zarco: Thursday improvement 'bigger than expected'

KTM's Johann Zarco says the improvement he made in laptime and overall feeling on the RC16 during Thursday's Sepang pre-season test was “bigger” than he expected.  Zarco's KTM debut has been a tough affair. He was over two seconds off the pace in November's tests, and was 10 places adrift of team-mate Pol Espargaro in 20th after Wednesday's running in Malaysia.  The double Moto2 champion improved his laptime by half a second to a 1:59.973s on Thursday, putting him 11th, and said breaching the 2:00s “wall” have him “a smile”. “From the morning I could start quite fast, and I did a bigger improvement than what I...
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