After a short month of vacation, fabio quartararo showed up in great shape on the Silverstone circuit for the 10th round of the world championship MotoGP, a place whose layout and high-speed turns he appreciates, and which suits him particularly well as evidenced by his victory in the premier category in 2021.
Add to this the currently positive dynamic reigning at Yamaha and the splendid livery of the M1s prepared to celebrate 75 years of Grands Prix, and you will understand that expectations were high when setting foot on the British island.
However, on the evening of the first day, it was clearly disappointment that characterized the men of the Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP team.
fabio quartararo, 15th in the championship and 16th this Friday, makes no secret of it: “No, I didn't expect that at all, I expected a lot better. It's weird because I was really thinking about taking a step forward this weekend and we didn't do it at all. So there you go, let’s see what we can do for tomorrow but I expected a lot better today.”
What's wrong ?
“A lot of things, a lot of things are wrong. Above all, I expected to be much closer on the clock, I'm not saying to move on to Q2 today, but I still thought I would be much better. But unfortunately we didn’t do it.”
Better this morning than this afternoon?
“No, this morning, it's just that I put a new tire, and the position was better, but it wasn't better. I can't tell you exactly what I got, but it certainly didn't work. We expected a lot better, it wasn’t at all better so it wasn’t at all what we expected.”
Will the new fins bring anything?
“No, no, I didn’t even know I was going to get this. It didn’t help at all, but we still had to try, to see if it was positive or negative or nothing at all.”
Objectives for the sprint and the Grand Prix?
“Very difficult because we have no rhythm at all, we don't feel at all comfortable, at least in terms of the pace of the stock market, so that's where we'll have to try to take a step forward. Before. »
Explanation of the current situation as Fabio Quartararo won in 2021…
“It's above all, not what we're missing but above all that the difference in times between the others in 2021 and now is enormous, and we can't even reproduce the times that we did it 3 years ago. So it’s still hard to swallow! But hey, for now that's how it is. We will have to work to find these times. »
MotoGP Practice standings for the 2024 British Grand Prix at Silverstone:
Classification credit: MotoGP.com
