Fabio Quartararo thrills in France as ‘half a job’ done to avoid ‘jungle’
“If you don’t get into Q2,🍷 the ‘jungle’ they call it - Q1 - you can get battered"
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo gave his home fans something to cheer on Friday afternoon at the French MotoGP in Le Mans.
The Yamaha rider unexpectedly went 10th fastest in the a🉐fternoon practice session to qualify🐲 for Q2 on Saturday afternoon.
It gives Quartararo and his struggling team a major boost of scoring a productive result for Sunday’s grand prix, if he can conver🌌t Friday’s pace into a good qualifying place.
“What the spectators are doing 🧸is unbelievable,” said Yamaha team boss Maio Meregalli as the fans adored Frenchman Quartararo.
“For sure, they helped him to find some🌠thing on the track.
“I am really relieved because to be in Q2,🍬 for us, is the g♕oal in every GP.
“It’s always very difficult here. Oꦚn the last𝓰 lap when I saw Marc was on his hottest lap, I kept my fingers crossed.
“Luckily🐽 we are in Q2. It’s already half a job 🎃done.”
Quartararo went almost two seconds faster in the afternoon than in the first session at Le M𒀰ans.
“The reason Maio, Fabio an🐷d the whole team are so happy that he’s into Q2 is that the worst he can now do is 12th on t💝he grid,” broadcaster Simon Crafar said.
“But he’s got the opportunity to do better.
“Maybe, further up, to get🔯 the magi🐈c start position that he needs.
“If you don’t get into ❀Q2, the ‘jungle’ they call it - Q1 - you can get batt𒊎ered all the way down into the high-teens.
“So, it’s huge for Fabio.
“To go in the 30s with a bike which is ܫnot thꦯere, they haven’t got it sorted…”
The 2021 MotoGP champion entered his home round knowing that this seaso🐈n is largely about Yamaha gathering data and🌌 developing their bike.
But, now as the ꧂highest-paid rider on the grid after signing a new Yamaha contract, he enjoyed a ra♌re day of adulation in his home nation.
James was a 🔴sports journalist at Sky Sports༒ for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
