Marco Bezzecchi
Fabio Quartararo has been essential to Yamaha’s MotoGP recovery during the 2025 season, with results improved dramatically over last year.
The Frenchman has opted to remain loyal to the Japanese manufacturer, despite a dismal few campaigns recently.
In 2024, Quartararo’s best result of sixth fell well short of the lows of the previous year, when he achieved three third places and still only finished 10th in the riders’ standings.
13th in the MotoGP title race was a new low for him, but he remains on course for ninth in 2025 after an inspired comeback from Yamaha. They’re also awaiting an encouraging new bike.
Quartararo is bothered by one thing critics keep saying after securing four pole positions this year, but failing to convert any of them into victories.
He did manage to hush them a little at the Sachsenring a few races ago. However, it did take for Quartararo to produce one ‘rare’ feat to get back onto the podium.
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Although Quartararo has a ‘perfect’ opportunity to leave Yamaha, it looks as though he will await the new V4 bike before making his final decision.
A move to a satellite Ducati team would yield better results, but would also lead to a dramatic paycut compared to what he’s on now.
A lot of motorsport disciplines share similarities, and Formula 1 is no exception. Quartararo recently paid Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton a visit, and says he learned a lot from him.
“It’s about more details,” he told SPEEDWEEK. “Of course, we can’t change everything from 0 to 100, but step by step, we can adapt it so that we get more information.
“It was interesting to see what Lewis and Charles talk about with the engineers, and that it involves a lot of details. I took away a lot of positives from that.”
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It has now officially been more than three years since Quartararo’s last MotoGP victory, which came at the 2022 German Grand Prix.
At the time, he might never have believed that it would be the last time he would reach the top step of the podium for such a long period.
He led Aleix Espargaro by 34 points at the top of the riders’ standings at the time, but his title charge fell apart.
From a whopping 91 points behind, Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia came out of nowhere to claim top honours, with a stellar second half of the season.
If it wasn’t for a gutting British Grand Prix retirement, due to a ride height device failure, that run would’ve been over this year. However, he has been made to wait for his moment.
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