Marco Bezzecchi
Fabio Quartararo has had both an encouraging and frustrating start to the 2025 MotoGP season with Yamaha.
Over the winter, the Japanese manufacturer has been able to improve the M1 bike, which had been pretty terrible over the last few years.
Quartararo has now taken four pole positions this season but has failed to convert any of them into victories.
It just seems that the Yamaha bike is rapid over one lap, but when it turns up on a Sunday, everything seems to fall apart a little bit.
After another difficult race last weekend, Quartararo admitted he had a ‘disaster’ Dutch Grand Prix after dropping nine positions.
Fortunately, the new V4 bike isn’t too far away now, which will save Quartararo from getting frustrated with Yamaha.
Fabio Quartararo told to ‘calm down’ after losing British Grand Prix victory
Quartararo has mentioned ‘dangerous’ problems at Yamaha but has remained loyal to his team throughout a very tough period.
Without a doubt, he’s an elite rider and could be winning races even on a satellite Ducati bike, but he chooses to have faith in a turnaround.
However, Quartararo did send Yamaha an ominous ‘ready’ warning and warned them that he wouldn’t stick around forever unless they showed genuine signs of improvement.
It came after a frustrating retirement at the British Grand Prix while in the lead. It was a race he definitely would have won if he hadn’t been let down by a ride height device.
Pramac’s Fonsi Nieto has told Mundo Deportivo how the Frenchman responded to his non-finish in Silverstone, and how he asked him to react.
“For a tiny technical thing, everything went to waste, but I think that if you get three poles and you have a race in your pocket, it’s close,” he said. “After the race, I hugged Fabio and told him to calm down, it’s just around the corner.”
Assessing Fabio Quartararo’s 2025 MotoGP campaign so far
After a super impressive start to the season, Quartararo’s form has dropped off recently, and he now sits 11th in the riders’ championship.
Since finishing second at the fifth round of the season in Jerez, Quartararo has finished in the top 10 (10th) just once in five races.
His standing isn’t a reflection of the pace he has shown at times this season, and there just needs to be a little more consistency.
After second place, his next best result is seventh. Having just four top 10 finishes all year, but also four pole positions, is just a very confusing statistic.
It shows that some of the tangibles are there, but everything needs to be brought together to start winning races regularly.
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