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Happy birthday Fabio! The milestone has passed: Fabio Quartararo is now older than the number he wears on his motorcycle in competition. The Frenchman is in fact celebrating his 21st birthday today, which is one unit more than his 20th which he would have liked to wear more often this year 2020. But the circumstances are what they are, and you have to take your chances in patience, while waiting for a recovery which will mark better days for everyone...

This moment will come and Dorna actually think about it seriously. But back to Fabio Quartararo. The tricolor has won several titles in 70cc, 80cc and 125cc on Spanish soil. A list of achievements to which are added two crowns in FIM CEV Repsol Moto3. The young prodigy will take advantage of this status to make his arrival in the Moto3 world in 2015, even before reaching the minimum age of 16. The representative of the Estrella Galicia team won two second places and two poles during a season which he unfortunately ended up injured. In 2016, the Niçois finally abandoned his Honda for a KTM from the Leopard Racing team, but success was not there. In 2017, he moved up to Moto2 and bagged six Top 10 finishes with the Pons team.

The Frenchman then migrated to Speed ​​Up. From there, something clicked, as evidenced by this second place in Assen and this triumph in Catalonia, which he could almost have repeated in Motegi without a disqualification for technical reasons. In 2019, fabio quartararo takes the plunge into MotoGP, with the brand new Petronas Yamaha SRT where he truly reveals himself, since he will be able to achieve no less than six poles and seven podiums. Results which earned him the title of best independent driver alongside the Rookie of the Year trophy. In 2020, he is announced as one of the big contenders for the title... When hostilities can begin!

 

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