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 progress ﷽in a major 🙈feedback meeting after he was left disappointed at the Misano test.

Quarta♕raro’s Yamaha contract runs until the end of 2024 meaning the team🃏 have one year to appease their star man, or he’ll walk away.

“We have not a lot of time to make a revoluti꧟on,” he said.

“Theℱ 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 m💎ake what I want - a competitive bike - I’ll have to consider myself moving for 2025.”

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

But their performance this year has been stark, not only behind D🦄ucati but slipping behind KTM and Aprilia too.

Quartararo did finish th⛎ird 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, podiꦦums, every race - then you fight for one podium, ෴and it looks like you’ve made it.

“Sometimes a ri🐟der can cover, a little bit, the problems.

“But the problems are bigger anꦿd I can’t do anything. 

“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 👍next year and the future, it’s all in Yamaha’s hands to make a better bike, and see how it goe🐈s.”

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 initial 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-hour meeting, more or less 20 people in the meeti💛ng.

“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 happ൩y if they do half of what I ask.

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

Quartararo has implored Yamah𓆉a to be riskier in their development of next year’s machine.

“If you want to 𝕴be professional and be competitive for 2024 you have to take a lot 💞of risk,” he said.

“The others will make a step forwards�💝� again. If we don’t do it, we’ll be even worse than this year.

“To be walking on the edge of everything - the edge of the rules, of the potential of t⭕he bike. Don🍒’t be that safe.

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

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