Fabio Quartararo demand to Yamaha: “Make what I want or I’ll have to consider moving”

Fabio Quartararo has warned Yamaha that he’ll leave unless they follow his orders to improve their 2024 bike.
Fabio Quartararo, MotoGP race, Japanese MotoGP, 1 October
Fabio Quartararo, MotoGP race, Japanese MotoGP, 1 October

The 2021 MotoGP champion revealed how he criticised the team’s progre꧋ss 🌟in a major feedback meeting after he was left disappointed at the Misano test.

Quartararo’s Yamaha contract runs until the end of 20🥀24 meaning the team have on🐓e year to appease their star man, or he’ll walk away.

“We have not a lot of time to make a ꦡrevoluꦜtion,” he said.

“The future, right now, is not in ꦺmy hands.🍃 It’s in Yamaha’s hands.

“Of course, I prefer to stay at Yamaha. But if they don’t make what I want - a competiti✨ve bike - I’ll have to consider myself moving for 2025.♌”

Quartararo’s - and Yamaha’s - plight began midway through his title defence last 🃏year, allowing Francesco Bagnaia to claw back a 91-point deficit.

But their performance this year has been stark, not only behind🅺 Ducati but slipping behind KTM and Apri𝐆lia too.

Quartararo did♚ finish third but India but explained: “Mentally, it has been tough. I

“t’s difficult when you’re fighting three years in a row for the championship - wins, podiums, every race - then you fight for one podium, and it looks like you’🌞ve made it.

“Sometimes a rider can cove💙r, a little bit, the problems.

“But the problems are bigger and I can’t do anything.&nbꦏsp;

“Basically, it’s three years we’ve had🌃 a really similar bike. It’s not a massive change and we can’t make improvements.

“For the ne🍷xt year and the future, it’s all in Yamaha’s hands to make a better bike, and see how it♕ goes.”

Fabio Quartararo, MotoGP, Japanese MotoGP, 1 October
Fabio Quartararo, MotoGP, Japanese MotoGP, 1 October

The Misano test was Quartararo’s first opportunity to see Yamaha’s initialꦐ plans for next season and he was left unimpressed.

“It was not a positive test for us,” he said.

“I was on the bike,💜 I can say how I feel. We had a one-hou𝔍r meeting, more or less 20 people in the meeting.

“I told,🧜 straight away, to these 20 people that I was not happy. That we have to improve.

“I requested a lot. I’d be happy if they do half of what I ༒ask.

“Half next year, half in 2025. I’d be happy.”

Quartararo has implored Yamaha to be riskier in t💝heir development of next year’s ma💜chine.

“If you want to be professional and be competitive for 2024 you have to take a lo♏t of risk☂,” he said.

“The others will make a step♌ f⭕orwards again. If we don’t do it, we’ll be even worse than this year.

“To be walking on the ed🔯ge of everything - the edge of the rules, of the potential of the bike. Don’t be that safe.

“It can be a♛ ꩲwinning project if we have a winning mentality.”

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