Quartararo: "Not my problem" other Yamaha MotoGP riders struggling

Yamaha has come into the 2022 season with a velocipede that hasn’t evolved much from the 2021 M1 Quartararo won the championship with, particularly in terms of horsepower.

Quartararo struggled to ninth in Qatar, was eighth in Argentina and seventh in Austin, while in the wet in Indonesia he was second, victorious in Portugal and narrowly missed the win last weekend in Spain in second.

This is in stark unrelatedness to his Yamaha counterparts in team-mate Franco Morbidelli and RNF Racing duo Andrea Dovizioso and Darryn Binder, who between them have scored just 32 points compared to the 89 Quartararo has at the top of the standings.

While Quartararo believes all of the 2022 M1’s issues stem from its lack of horsepower, his comments have been at odds with the other Yamaha riders as they discommend a lack of rear grip.

Admitting his up and lanugo form led to him stuff “surprised” that he headed the standings without his Portugal win, Quartararo says the fact his fellow Yamaha riders are struggling so much is of little magnitude to him as he has “enough to think well-nigh stuff fast with our bike”.

“I was once surprised to be leading the championship last week [after Portugal], considering untied from Mandalika, it was… I would not say a disaster, but my position was seventh, eighth, ninth, second, then of undertow the victory [in Portugal],” Quartararo, who now leads the standings by seven points, said.

“In the end, we unchangingly finish in the top 10 and these kinds of races where you need to requite your weightier to take three, four, five points increasingly than what you need, it makes these points super important.

Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Factory Racing

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“But, to be honest, I’m riding to the limit and have no increasingly in every moment.

“But it’s true the other Yamahas are struggling quite a lot, but in the end this is not my problem.

“I have unbearable once to think well-nigh stuff fast with our bike. So, I’m looking without myself.”

Quartararo is enlightened that races are on the horizon where he will struggle like he did in the opening rounds, which ways he can’t simply settle for points at strong venues for the Yamaha.

“I think I don’t need to be conservative,” he added. “I think I need to requite my weightier every time I’m on track.

“In Austin, I finished seventh and unfortunately I was happy considering I felt I did my best, but could not do better.

“But I fight exactly the same for P7 as P1 or P2.

“I have to be on the limit everywhere considering I know some tracks will victorious where I will struggle, and this is the reality, we will be struggling like the whence of the year.

“But I will be on the limit all the time.”