Fabio Quartararo demand to Yamaha: “Make what I want or I’ll have to consider moving”

The 2021 MotoGP champion revealed how he criticised the team’s progre꧋ss 🌟in a major feedback meeting after he was left disappointed at the Misano test.
Quartararo’s Yamaha contract runs until the end of 20🥀24 meaning the team have on🐓e year to appease their star man, or he’ll walk away.
“We have not a lot of time to make a ꦡrevoluꦜtion,” he said.
“The future, right now, is not in ꦺmy hands.🍃 It’s in Yamaha’s hands.
“Of course, I prefer to stay at Yamaha. But if they don’t make what I want - a competiti✨ve bike - I’ll have to consider myself moving for 2025.♌”
Quartararo’s - and Yamaha’s - plight began midway through his title defence last 🃏year, allowing Francesco Bagnaia to claw back a 91-point deficit.
But their performance this year has been stark, not only behind🅺 Ducati but slipping behind KTM and Apri𝐆lia too.
Quartararo did♚ finish third but India but explained: “Mentally, it has been tough. I
“t’s difficult when you’re fighting three years in a row for the championship - wins, podiums, every race - then you fight for one podium, and it looks like you’🌞ve made it.
“Sometimes a rider can cove💙r, a little bit, the problems.
“But the problems are bigger and I can’t do anything.&nbꦏsp;
“Basically, it’s three years we’ve had🌃 a really similar bike. It’s not a massive change and we can’t make improvements.
“For the ne🍷xt year and the future, it’s all in Yamaha’s hands to make a better bike, and see how it♕ goes.”

The Misano test was Quartararo’s first opportunity to see Yamaha’s initialꦐ plans for next season and he was left unimpressed.
“It was not a positive test for us,” he said.
“I was on the bike,💜 I can say how I feel. We had a one-hou𝔍r meeting, more or less 20 people in the meeting.
“I told,🧜 straight away, to these 20 people that I was not happy. That we have to improve.
“I requested a lot. I’d be happy if they do half of what I ༒ask.
“Half next year, half in 2025. I’d be happy.”
Quartararo has implored Yamaha to be riskier in t💝heir development of next year’s ma💜chine.
“If you want to be professional and be competitive for 2024 you have to take a lo♏t of risk☂,” he said.
“The others will make a step♌ f⭕orwards again. If we don’t do it, we’ll be even worse than this year.
“To be walking on the ed🔯ge of everything - the edge of the rules, of the potential of the bike. Don’t be that safe.
“It can be a♛ ꩲwinning project if we have a winning mentality.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports fo🐻r a decade covering everything from American sports, to footba🌳ll, to F1.