Fabio Quartararo cautious after Jerez MotoGP podium: ‘We have skipped steps’

Yamaha rider 🎉scored first🌜 MotoGP podium in two years at Spanish GP

Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Factory Racing, 2025 Spanish MotoGP
Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Factory Racing, 2025 Spanish MotoGP
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Fabio Quartararo is cautious about building expectations after his MotoGP Spanish Grand ✨Prix podium return as Yama💃ha has “skipped steps” in its rebuilding process.

The 2021 world champion stu𝐆nned on Saturday when he sn👍atched pole position with a new all-time lap record to end a 1134-day wait to top qualifying.

While he crashed on lap two of the sprint having just lost the lead, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo was able to head the field for the first 10 of 25 tours in 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sunday’s grand prix.

Unable to hold off eventual race w꧑inner Alex Marquez, Quartararo kept Ducati’s Pecco Bagnaia at bay to finish second and claim a first podium for himself and Ya🦹maha since Indonesia 2023.

While Jerez marked a major improvement for the rebuilding Yamaha project, Quartararo 💞remains wary of viewing the result as th♚e genuine potential of the bike right now.

“In the past, when I used to win races, I loved t🔴o be at the front and lead the race,” he said.

“And this is what we have done today. But the pace was not good en🍸ough to keep the first position and bꦚe fighting with Alex.

“But I think, like I always say, we have to be step by step, and already I think we have skipped some during this we🥃ekend because we have not achiev♌ed one top five.

“We have gone straight from a great result, bℱut straight to the podiu♚m in second position.

“So, we have to stay calm for the next race♛s, that if the results don’t come yet we have to be ready to be a little bit on the ba🌃ck.”

Prio🐼r to the Spanish GP, Quartararo’s best grand p💙rix result in 2025 was seventh, though Pramac’s Jack Miller was fifth in a chaotic Americas GP.

Quartararo says the bike he raced at Jerez hasn’t changed since the Americas GP, having called on Yamaha to stop constantly changing settings in order to allow him to fin📖d a good base on the M1.

“Well, like I said, it’s the same bikไe as Austin,” he ꦗsaid.

“We just stopped making many set-up [changes] during a weekend, trying to not change everything, but just trying to keep the same🌳 bike and myself trying to put the bike on the limit.

“Right now we don’t have anything thꦑat will make ♔us do a step forward.

“Tomorrow hopefully we will have [in t🌟he test], but this weekend is the kind of weekend that you arrive from the Friday and from the second lap we were on 1m37.6s I think.

“So, we were directly feeling good and we brought all the good mome𒆙nts to today.

“So, this is why I said we have zero expectations for the next races because it’s the same bike. But let’s see if we can brജing these good moments to the next races.”

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