Johann Zarco digs at Jean-Michel Bayle after break-up: “I’m not a 15-year-old!”
Zarco will enter his seventh MotoGP season still seeking his first grand prix victory and has rest🔜ructured his inner-circle, with ex-motocross rider Bayle departing as his physical trainer.
"I'm no longer a 15-year-old,” Zarco said via .
“I'ꩵm old enough not to worry if what I do bothers someone or not. I cannot tolerate the childish behaviour of 🍸a 53-year-old man.
"I know what I have to ☂work on. Jean-Michel was a guide, but I am able to draw up a training program for myself.”
Zarco did offer a few words of appreciation: "Jean-Michel made ✃me understand that I would have to progress on the physical side to be more lucid, I have to admit .
“Hiꦰs point of view is in⭕teresting and he pushed me to train more."
Bayle had previously remarked on his exit: "It is with disappointment and with🤪 the feeling of an unfinished challenge that this adventure with Johann Zarco ends.
"I had analysedꦜ a lot of things to work on during the 2022 season and I w🧸as counting a lot on this winter to improve them.
“For va𓆏rious reasons, it was impossible to set my schedule and training strategy for this new 2023 season.
“I knew that changing habits is not easy. See💜 you soon for new challe♛nges and new adventures."
Zarco and Bayle has parted ways twice n🦋ow - the first was when the rider exited KTM for Hoꦓnda.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sportsཧ for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
