Fabio Quartararo is preparing to return to MotoGP for tests at Sepang, which he has already assured will only take five laps to assess the work done by Iwata's engineers on his Yamaha. He reiterated his confidence in the brand's potential to recover in the face of Ducati adversity, emphasizing the recruitment of Europeans, which was the sign of a cultural revolution for the Japanese. It now remains to be seen what all this has done this winter on the M1 to come and the Frenchman hopes for the arrival of the much-requested engine power to finally be able to challenge the World Champion in hand-to-hand combat...
Car fabio quartararo recalls him in an interview with NBC Sports, he has in fact never really been in a duel with the one who stole his crown in 2022. There was indeed the skirmish of the last Grand Prix of last season in Valencia, which cost a fin Pecco Bagnaia, but otherwise, never a real fight over the duration of a race.
A gap which, he assures us, should be filled fairly quickly, but obviously on the sole condition that Yamaha gives him the weapons to go to the front thus: “ I never really had a fight with Pecco, a real duel on the track because sometimes I won and he fell and vice versa » reports the 2021 MotoGP World Champion. “ So we never really fought against each other. But it's going to happen soon ". And he adds: “ I think Yamaha did a good job and we will see that in the first tests. I have high hopes that we will be able to fight with the first ».
Fabio Quartararo takes his share of responsibility for the 2022 defeat
On his defeat last year, although he was still 91 points ahead at seven Grands Prix at the end of hostilities which also signaled a deficit of 17 points at the time of the final count, fabio quartararo takes his share of responsibility: I thought too much about always wanting to win although I could have finished fourth or fifth and I made a few mistakes ».
Then he concludes: “ but we always learn from mistakes ". A lesson that will undoubtedly be useful in a campaign MotoGP where regularity will count even more with the arrival of sprint races still distributing half of the points of the traditional Sunday competition.
