This is one of the rumors circulating in Moto2. While Moto3 is placed under the seal of a supposed arrival of Bastianini within the official KTM team instead of Brad Binder promised as Zarco's successor at Ajo in the upper class, it is another Frenchman who could invite himself into the MotoGP antechamber...
This one is a Fabio Quartararo who the setbacks experienced this year do not seem to have affected, and who, at this very moment, think more about the present and future than the past.
And yet, since the 2015 German Grand Prix, it is nothing to say that the Frenchman's rise has come to a halt. Double titled in Spain, his arrival on the international scene did not initially go unnoticed with a podium in his second Grand Prix in Austin. Then there is the fall of the French Grand Prix and a last podium at Assen before a long eclipse. Which still lasts. Injuries, team change, a move from Honda to KTM for a reigning champion team which is however far from accumulating last year's results, mechanical problems; the elements have united against the tricolor which can already almost give up on its 2016 campaign. At mid-season, here it is fourteenth overall with only 39 points; a result well below his talent!
Worse, during his last performance at the Sachsenring, he finished last in the rain, one lap behind the winner. Fabio seems to have hit rock bottom.
But if the French driver is undoubtedly in a bad situation, he has obviously not lost the level of driving that he has been able to display during the last three years. And no one forgets that, like a Sito Pons that the Spanish site Trademarks announcement as wishing to offer to the young Nice Alex's place Kidneys heading to the elite with an official Suzuki contract. Not so bad considering his current situation!
However, as Marca points out and as we see with the occasional presence of Randy de Puniet at his side, the French pilot's entourage seems to be changing and this leaves the door wide open on what the future will look like. of the young man from Nice; Moto3? Moto2? Leopard? Pons? No doubt he himself doesn't know it yet...
