MotoGP Le Mans: Fabio Quartararo: No more changes, we’ll go with 2021 Yamaha settings
A꧒fter again failing to make Qualifying 2 - and having discarded the chassis, exhaust and aero parts from the Jerez test - the former world champion revealed the 2021 settings were fitted to his factory Yamaha from the French Spri♈nt race onwards:
“I'm feeling a little bit better, but still not feeling super great.💞 But much better than everything w𒁃e have tried,” he said.
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Quartararo crashed out of eighth in the Sprint before bri🔴nging his M1 home in seventh place, after multiple accidents ahead, in the grand prix.
“I think the plan now - and this is💯 what we’ve decided with our crew - is 𝔉that from the beginning of the year we have been trying thousands of things, of settings on the bike.
“And𒉰 now we decide to just go with the 2021 setting and I 💎will need to adapt to any problems and we'll see.
“But we’ve tried a lot of things on the bike aౠnd the best we had is always to bring tꦚhe base of two years ago.
“So we decide to keep [the bike] like that and t💟hat'♔s it.”
Quartararo, leading the world championship at this stage las൩t year, has♓ only taken one podium this season and is 45 points from title leader Francesco Bagnaia.
“Right now we are way too far [to think about the title] but I f༒eel disappointed in one way that I cou𝓰ld have managed to get really better results [here],” he said.
“Be꧂cause, at the end, what is true is that today and yesterday, even in the Sprint, my pace was not so bad.”
Quartararo has identified qualifying speed and 👍overtaꦅking difficulties as his main issues.
He explained that the upgr🐷aded&🥀nbsp;2023 engine has perhaps made the bike more aggressive, and difficult to turn, but still doesn't have enough power to run the high downforce of rival machines.
"It looks like we got some more power but w🎃e lose much more in riding,"𝓀 he said earlier in the weekend. “I never had a bike this aggressive, and no turning.
“We tried an exhaust, which was not working. Chassis is not working. Aero is not working. Electronics is not working. Maybe one setting that we tried with Öhlins was 💖a little bit better.
“But from the [Jerez] test, the new things that we 🐓t🍃ried were useless.”
Team-mate Fr🥀anco Morbidelli finished 13th and 10th in the Le Mans races.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki ex🅷it story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
