Fabio Quartararo supposedly had more opt🅺ions on th👍e table than just Yamaha and Aprilia.

The 2021 MotoGP champion chose to sign a new contract tying him to Yamꦬaha for at least two more seasons, making him the highest-paid rider on the grid.

The interest from Aprilia has been documented but Quartararo and his agent have now revealed that other options🎐 were on the table.

Tom Maubant⛎, Quartararo’s agওent, told TNT Sports in Le Mans: “Now I can tell you. It’s okay.

“I had offers from more or less everybody.

“At the end, Fabio knew since the beginning he want🌠s to continue wi🍬th Yamaha.

“What we saw in the te🌜st in Sepang, the improvement…

“The choice was easy.

“[Yamaha] ꦜshowed a lot of interest to keep him, to secure him in the team. He will not forget this.”

Q๊uartararo added: “Of course I had to look at all the manufacturers.

“I had really nice offers from ꦕother manufacturers.

“But, the way [Yamaha] invested into the project. “They 💙gave ⭕me the opportunity to be a MotoGP rider.

“We won races and championships together.

“We were at the top. 🍸We are clearly at t൲he bottom now.

“Also, my ego - I want to come back with them.”

His agent added: “We are guys like this. We will never 🍷forget what you did for us in the pas🐲t.

“We know Yamaha is one of the bigg🌺est brains in the motorcycle world.

“We know the people in the team are puཧshing a lot.

“We know they will come bac𓄧k sooner or later, for sure.

“Yamaha is our family. Even in bad times we enjoy it because we lov♔e everybody there.

“Ev🎃en if Fabio is angry after the race, because he is honest, when he arrives in the box h𒅌e is amazing.”

Quartararo explained why he chose✅ to stay despite Yamaha’s underperformance: “It was ꦑa number of things.

“It was not any promise. Just facts that I see.

“From the new people arriving last year when I asked whaꩲt was the problem.

“From the first test in Sepang with the new engineers, when I asked how we c🍰an resolve it, or what was the problem, we clearly had answers.

“This was something tha🌺t made me change with understanding the🦂 project.

“Max Bartolini came, theꦆ first meeting with him I asked thousands of questions about how it’s going in the red ✨box.

“He could tell us everything. For the experience of Yamaha, it𝐆 is great.

“That was a big reason for me to stay.”

Asked if he has imposed a deadline on Yamaha t൩o see improvements, Quartararo answered: “I don’t want to be super in a rush. I believe in the project.

“The project is until the end of 2026.

“I want to b🌠e ready as✅ soon as possible but it’s a long project.

“It will be better at the end of this year.”

Quartararo: Yamaha ‘totally forgot our strong point’

Quartararo listed the many issues he faces with his🐓 M1✱.

Crucially, he admitted that Yamaha have lost their big advantage in turninꦬg due to their pursuit in improving other areas.

“Braking, we miss the rear grip,” he began.

“We are missing the sto🔯pping performance. We are missing the turning. We are missing grip on acceleration.

“A lot of things, but clearly one is the turning. “The strong point for Yamᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚaha i🥃n the past was the turning.

“We totally foꦗrgot this strong point and we need♓ to come back.

“We improved slightly on the power but✤ lost all the rest. We have to understand why.

“We will ge🔴t them again, and we will be competitiveℱ.”

Quartara🤪ro has finished no higher than P7 in any of the five grands prix this𝕴 season.

He crashed out of his home race, the French MotoGP, last weekend while inꦗsidꦚe the top six. It represented a positive, to be so competitive.

Quartararo explained his changing me𒊎ntality with a sub-par bike: “It’s difficult because, as a winner and an athlete, the mind-set is different. “We know that we are struggling a lot with our bike.

“We are on the way. It’s difficult💙 because we can’t arrive to a trackও and say ‘we are going to fight to win or for the podium’.

“The job we aಞre doing now is important for our future.

“It’s important to stay calm and not ♈think a♈bout the result.

“Yamaha understand a lot how,🔴 in the last years of MotoGP, how the♐ sport has changed.

“We were stuck for three years. They understand now that we have to work in a completely different w꧑ay.

“I can see, from the end of December, that Yamaha has totally 🅠changed.

“But when you have b𓆏asically the same bike fo🐟r three years? And you try to change everything?

“Of course we 🐈were lost. Now we are tryi🐼ng to find our way.

“The new engineers, the new mentality, the new way of working is compl𓆏etely different.

“We will 🤡arrive. But not in one week or three months. We need a lot of time.

“I believe a lot in the Yamaha project.

“This is the reason why I re-signed with Yamaha.”