MotoGP Americas, Austin: Quartararo: Toprak? We’ll see who my 2024 team-mate will be
Fabio Quartararo, the rider 2021 World Superbike champion Razg🔯atlioglu would partner should he join the🍌 Monster Yamaha team, called the test a ‘great opportunity’ for the Turkish star.
But the Frenchman also💮 made clear he has no say in the identity of his fu꧅ture team-mate.
“Well, that’s not my thing, of cou🌟rse,”🐎 Quartararo said at COTA on Thursday.
“It was a great opportunity for [Toprak] to tryﷺ the bike for two days [but] I never really talked to him about the test.
“Then for the future of Yamaha, it’s not i﷽n my hands. But we’ll see who my team-mate will be n🍸ext year - it could be Franco, or another…”
Quartararo arrives at round three of the ꦕseason still looking to 🦹convert the potential of the more powerful 2023 M1 into results, with a best finish of seventh so far and tenth place in the early world championship standings.
The foꦉrmer title winner, whose hopes have been blighted by early contact with other riders in both Portimao ♕and Termas, stressed that qualifying is his top priority for COTA.
“The potential in the wet in Argentina was great. The pace in the sprint was not the best, but we are not so far. Just qualifying was the point we need to work on and the kဣey this weekend to make a great qualifying,” said Quartararo, who is yet to qualify in the top nine this year.
Insisting he’s not far away from finding a base setting for the new bike, Qღuartararo now aims to make further strides this weekend.
“It’s not so much, but everything is so tight that if you are not 100% confident on the bike it’s difficult,” he said. “Port⛦ugal was not too bad but we’d had tests just before, then we had to fꦗigure out the conditions in Argentina.
“Every time we went on track we changed someth🐽ing, and it was going in a better way. So hopefully we can find our base on this track and, especially in qualifying, make a step forwards.”
Francoไ Morbidelli, whose Yamaha contract expires this season, is currently one placꦅe ahead of Quartararo in the world championship standings.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go.ꦅ He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
