Fabio Quartararo approaches the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez with the desire to erase the bitterness of 2024 and maximize the potential of the current Yamaha M1, while keeping an eye on the future V4 engine. Eighth in the championship after a frustrating 7th place in Qatar, the 2021 champion knows the M1 still lacks grip and power, but he remains focused on the present, as he revealed before the 5th round of MotoGP.
With the return of MotoGP to Europe, Fabio Quartararo approaches a crucial turning point in its season. The pilot Yamaha , eager to make people forget a very complicated 2024, remains focused on the present... while keeping a very close eye on the future of the M1, a future which is already being written in V4.
Interrogé sur the tests carried out recently at Valencia by Cal Crutchlow et Augusto Fernandez, where a first version of the V4 prototype of Yamaha turned his first turns of the wheels, the Frenchman avoided the details, not without malice: " I think it's better if I say nothing. It's better than saying something that might not be true at all or might be completely the opposite. What I can say is that the bike did a few laps »
Fabio Quartararo should test the Yamaha V4 in August or September
Smiling, but measured, Quarterly was keen to point out that the team's priority, for the moment, remained the current M1. He himself should not test the new V4 engine only in August or September, once the bulk of the peloton has already turned towards 2026.
But basically, the French driver leaves no room for doubt about the direction to follow: " the future is unavoidable. From 2026, I only think about the V4. Four of the five manufacturers are betting on the V engine. And if we want to fight for victory over the entire race distance, we will have to rely on the same concept »
A lucid speech on speedweek, almost resigned, but also ambitious. Because to return to the top, Quarterly knows that he will not be able to do it with the weapons of the past. The future of Yamaha is therefore going through a technical revolution, and El Diablo is preparing to fully embrace it. In the meantime, Jerez will be the next challenge to prove that he has not said his last word on the M1.
