Fabio Quartararo has declared the 2𓂃024 MotoGP season as his “best” in the premier class, even if his results were worse than ever.

Quartararo re-signed for Yamaha earlier this year after turning down a move tꦚo A෴prilia, the only manufacturer other than Ducati to win a race in 2024.

Yamaha has been in decline in MotoGP since at least the second half of the 2022 seas💮on, but Quartararo feels not only that Yamaha is arresting its slide away from the pinnacle of the premier class, but also that, despite the underwhelming performance of the YZR-M1, he has been able to extract more from himself in 2024 than ever before.

“In terms of riding, in terms of working with the team, I think𝐆 it’s the best [season],” Quartararo, who endured his first MotoGP season without a podium in 2024, said at the season-closing Solidarity Grand Prix.

“In terms of results, it’s clearly the worst, but in terms of how I learn, how I learn to stay calm and try to improve the bike in the best way possible — of c🍒ourse on the inside there a💮re moments where you really get angry, but it’s in a really short time. But I think the way we have worked this year has been amazing.

“Of course, I expect th🐼e improvement to be much faster and quic🀅ker, but we find a way.

“On my personal side, on the riding, I think I managed to get really ✤something extra and in the tough mom🐓ents is where you really learn.”

MotoGP’s updated concessions𝓀 system fo💖r 2024 allowed Yamaha — and Honda — increased testing and development potential than their European rivals.

While they didn’t immediately catapult the two Japanese bra𓃲nds back to the front, Quartararo felt that, at least in Yam♚aha’s case, the concessions saved 2024 from being a “disaster”.

“Without the concessions, [th🤪is season] would have been a disaster” he said.

“What was missing was riders: we have only two; Cal [Crutchlow, Yamaha test rider] had an injury on the arm, [so] we had no test rider, no riding, we were alone basically▨. This, for me, was the biggest issue this year.

“But next year with another factory team (Pramac), the test team is growing quite a lot for next year,♊ and I think the way we have taken since Misano 2 has been much better. We see the results is not fantastic but at least it’s groღwing step-by-step.

“We missed only one Q2 since Misano 1. So, the progress is there, and I think next year the progress wi🔯ll be even faster.”