Joan Mir can undoubtedly be offended, but unlike what was reserved for the conquest of his MotoGP world title in 2020, the achievement of Fabio Quartararo does not suffer from any dispute. We did not detect, as with the Suzuki official, the slightest annoying question about the beauty of the course or the legitimacy of its outcome. The Yamaha factory rider comes out of a campaign with 18 games instead of 14, crossed swords with a Marc Marquez present and triple winner although reduced, unlike his package in 2020. And he won five victories against one to the Spanish. That's the visible part of the iceberg. For the other piece, less detectable, we must refer to a man who knows all the secrets of the Yamaha box: Ramon Forcada…
Ramón Forcada, we will recall, was one of the three titles of Jorge Lorenzo in MotoGP on the M1, he was at the service of Maverick Vinales, which did not help him since he had to leave the official fold to nevertheless become essential in the satellite structure of the brand. It's there, alongside Morbidely, whom he got to know fabio quartararo then under the Petronas colors before heading to the corner inhabited by Valentino Rossi. This interior knowledge allows him to shed particular light on the Frenchman's 2021 journey.
Public chat Moto.it, we can thus read his opinion: “ he had a very smart season, checking and finishing all races » comments the Spaniard. “ This is something that is fundamental in today's MotoGP, as we already saw in 2020 when Joan Mir was the most consistent. He did what he had to do and what he set out to do immediately: win the championship ».
With this target obsessively in the viewfinder, Fabio Quartatraro adopted the right tempo, knowing how to resign itself to a good result other than victory in order to collect valuable points. But there was also something else, which did not matter in the least: “ he had no vices and his style could immediately be the best for this bike ". Because the tricolor was formed and revealed in MotoGP with the Yamaha M1. He has never known any other machine than this one.
« Dovizioso, like Quartararo, will understand very well how to operate the Yamaha«
A complicity which is an added value and which raises the question of whether the pilot would be as effective with another model. An aspect already spoken about by the one who changed his Yamaha for a Ducati then for a Honda, only to end up retired, i.e. Jorge Lorenzo. Por Fuera warned because he demonstrated it, that the grass was not greener elsewhere.
More Ramón Forcada takes the reasoning differently, by applying it to its current pilot which is Andrea Dovizioso. Now, this one comes out of eight seasons with the Ducati… “ He came as if gripped in the vice of another motorcycle he says. " But Andrea Dovizioso is a really strong driver and, just like Fabio, he will understand very well how to operate the Yamaha ". We expect to see that in 2022, as no doubt Yamaha who, for the moment, can only count on fabio quartararo to play at the forefront. A situation which did not escape him while the negotiations for his contract after 2022 were launched by his manager Eric Mahé with his now famous formula of “ everything is open ».
