Fabio Quartaro spoke to Relay about the changes at Yamaha and his renewal with the Japanese manufacturer. The French rider also talked about when Yamaha could be competitive again.
The 2021 MotoGP world champion began by talking about when Yamaha started to become uncompetitive.
– As early as the end of 2022. Since the end of 2022, if you look at it, I haven’t won a race. I haven’t won a race since the end of the year. And, as I said, we have to make a big change to fight next year. We’ve been able to fight, but because I’ve had, for me, a better year than in 2021.
He added of one of the most difficult moments of his career: ‘I think it was last year in Jerez, because really every year I went there in MotoGP I fought for the win. Except in 2021, when I had compartment syndrome, but I was first with a lead of two seconds. And in 2019 I was second and my gears broke. And last year in Jerez we qualified, I think 15th or 16th, very far back, and then we really saw that we were losing a lot.