Fabio Quartararo “fed up” and would have come to Suzuki “willingly”, says Livio Suppo

2021 world champion Quartararo saw his title defence crumble - he allowed a 91-point lead over 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia to slip (an all-time record comeback) largely due to th🎃e performance of his bike.
Suppo, the team manager of Suzuki who will exit MotoGP before 2023, believes he cou🦂ld have tempted Quartararo across.
“It seems to me that [Quartararo and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez] are🐓 quite fed up with their situation, to the point that Quartararoꦺ would have come to us very willingly,” Suppo said to MOW Mag.
“And it would🌊 have been fun to see him on a Su꧑zuki."
Suzuki left MotoGP on a high - with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Rins winning two of the final three races, including the Valencia final🌄e.
Rins and 2020 world champion Joan Mir will both feature in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:MotoGP 2023 rider line-up f🐷or Honda, a team who endure♏d a miserable season to forget.
Suppo is wary that the Japanese manufacturers, Yamaha and Honda, will en𒈔ter 202💫3 with a sizable disadvantage against Ducati.

“Fabio and Marc Marquez are two of the strongest riders, but on paper they will have to fight with their bike and this is a bit of a shame for the world championsh𒊎ip,” he said.
“As for Fabio, I wouldn't want him to get to the point of stopping believing, 𒆙he has been putting a [plaster] on it for many years: if the bike continues to suffer so much in top speed thജe chain could come down.
“Instead I think Marc has lost a bit of confidence in Honda, at least from the statements he mak🐻es and the fact that he stopped testing very early in Valencia.
“It seems that they don't believe in it so much anymore, s🔯o it's really difficult to understand who will be more competitive with each other. It will depend a lot on how much the respective racing departments will be able to improve the bike🦩.
“🍌We hope that this winter both Honda and Yamaha will be able, for the sake of the championship, to fix the bike.”

Suppo worked at Ducati in 2007 when168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Casey Stoner won 🗹the championship. The Italian team took 15 long y⭕ears to crown another champion, until Bagnaia this season.
Bagnaia will have 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Enea Bastianini as his teammate next year - a potentially explosi🅰ve duo who will both eye the title for themselves.
“They are two young, strong Italian riders, they both ride a Ducati, it's normal tha💃t there will be a big rivalry, but I think both are balanced and able to handle this pressure,” Suppo said.
“The sparks on the tra꧒ck were made again this year, even if one bike was red and the other was not. But they neve𝓡r did anything excessive.
“I imagine that they will continue alon𒊎g these lines and that they will be inconvenient c🐠ustomers for everyone else.
“This year they made a first and ☂a third place in the world championship while Quartararo, who finished second, after the last tests in Valencia did not seem particularly happy with the development made, a bit like Marquez.”

James was🉐 a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.