“Emotional” Fabio Quartararo “in trouble” - ‘how did we get it so wrong?’

Fabio Quartararo’s problems are mounting, between his below-par bike and his overachieving teammate, Keith Huewen said on the wuqian0821.com MotoGP podcast.
Fabio Quartararo , Sprint Race, Argentina MotoGP, 1 April
Fabio Quartararo , Sprint Race, Argentina MotoGP, 1 April

The 2021 MotoGP champion’s hopes of reclaiming the title are off to a dreadful start, made worse by the heroics of the under-pressure 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Franco Morbidelli on the same bike.

Quartararo only lost out on a second consecutive title onꦍ the final day of the 2022 season, where he out-scored Morbidelli by 248 to 42 point🤡s, but after two rounds of 2023 the roles are dramatically reversed.

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“Quartꦆararo is the one who’s 🐓in trouble,” Huewen said. 

“He’s not only struggling w🐭ith his motorbike but, now, his teammate is out-scoring him.

“Quartararo is an emotional type of rider, he’s not steely. Stuff gets t꧒o him. He waves his hands about, throws his arms in the🏅 air, stamps his feet.

“Now he’s looking inwardly thinking: ‘How did Frankie get it so right, and we got i🍌t soও wrong?’”

Peter McLaren, wuqian0821.com MotoGP editor, added: “His big problem is that he has qualified towards the back at both rounds. He gets held up. His race🍸 pace is pretty good.”

Franco Morbidelli, Argentina MotoGP, 31 March
Franco Morbidelli, Argentina MotoGP, 31 March

Morbidelli entered this season amid rumours that Yamaha would s༺eek to r🥃eplace him, potentially with Jorge Martin, in 2024.

But ♎he romped to fourth-place in Argentina, one of the feelgood stories of the wee🌳kend.

Can he sustain this form?

“That’s what everyone is as🔥king! He is trying to keep calm,” said McLaren. “But it was his best weekend since 2021.

“The track was low grip. It seems that Morbidelli does better in those circumstances tha🧸n Quartararo.

“He’s transformed. Let’s hope it’s a tඣurning point but it’ꦅs too early to say, for sure.

“They are definitely closer when there is low grip. The question is: when the grip level rises, can Frankie sꦅtill be as competitive?”

Huewen added: “Most impressive, for me, was that he was ꦛaggressive. He was sticking it in there! You need confidence to ﷺdo that.

“He looked like a changed man.

“He’s an intelligent 😼fe🌠lla, someone who thinks about every millimetre that he covers.

“Is he ꦍbꦚack? Given how aggressive and confident he was riding, I’d say yes.

“The bit I can’t fathom is how he went fro♑m ꦏzero to hero.”

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