Analysis – 7th at the Malaysian GP, ​​Quartararo had “the pace to do much better” … –

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7th in the Malaysian GP, ​​Quartararo had "the pace to do much better"…

Analysis - 7th at the Malaysian GP, ​​Quartararo had `` the pace to do much better '' ... -

Fabio Quartararo was finally unable to take advantage of the Malaysian GP, ​​on the land of his team and his sponsor, to offer them his first victory in MotoGP. The French debutant finished 7th after dominating all weekend, but the Yamaha Petronas SRT satellite team pocketed the title of best private team… Debriefing.

The results of the Malaysian MotoGP 2019 GP are decidedly well contrasted for the French riders: on the one hand Johann Zarco is finally fighting in the top 10 but is done, on the other Fabio Quartararo continues his flamboyant first season with the, but not fails to fight at the forefront and finishes 7th over 12 seconds…

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"It was a really tough race and I struggled a lot," said the best rookie of the year. "My first lap was catastrophic, I couldn’t brake even though we hadn’t had this problem all weekend. We didn’t manage to get the expected result, yet we had the pace to to do a lot better. We will have to understand why. There is still one race to go and we must focus on this point to be able to be good at Valencia, especially since we will be much more experienced than when we did the tests there. ".

Among the tracks mentioned by Fabio to explain his sudden drop in speed during the race is a possible pressure too high in his front tire, an aspect to which the Nice man is extremely sensitive … This is probably not insulting him. also feel that another pressure – related to his status as favorite, this time! – maybe "blocked" him during the first laps, while Viñales and Marquez were racing belly down ?!

Analysis - 7th in the Malaysian GP, ​​Quartararo had `` the pace to do much better '' ... -

"Of course when we are first on the starting grid, we do not aim for sixth or seventh place, but we will go to Valencia with more experience and we hope to fight once again in the lead", confirms the team manager Wilco Zeelenberg congratulating himself on this "fantastic weekend" at the end of which he achieved his goal: to obtain the title of best independent team 2019 thanks to Fabio Quartararo and Franco Morbidelli.

"Real frustrations"

For his part, Franco Morbidelli believes that he "cannot complain because it was a good weekend, even if we expected a little more from the race. I did not have excellent feelings and I was losing ground acceleration compared to the others and we will have to examine this point, but despite everything we finished sixth and best independent driver. We have one race left in Valencia to try to get this podium ".

Analysis - 7th in the Malaysian GP, ​​Quartararo had `` the pace to do much better '' ... -

Finally, the big boss of Yamaha in Europe did not fail to congratulate his four riders while having a thought for Johann Zarco. Eric de Seynes praised the "very good and confident victory of Maverick Viñales" and the "good group shot of the other three Yamaha riders with Valentino Rossi 4th, Franco Morbidelli 6th and Fabio Quartararo 7th".

"But there are also real frustrations on which we must continue to work despite some undeniable progress", continues the general manager of Yamaha Motor Europe, citing "the launch control and the power at high revs which condition the top speed. These two points, some competitors are strong and often take an advantage in the first lap which makes the race of our pilots difficult, despite all the qualities of the M1 in other sectors (chassis, changes of angles, entering a turn, traction , stability, etc. "

"And also, what a disappointment to see Johann Zarco come out cleanly when he had built a nice ninth place after a solid race", notes the Yamaha manager who was perhaps not about the ‘former KTM rider, exfiltrated at Honda LCR for the last three races of the season…

2019 Malaysian MotoGP Grand Prix Results

  1.  Maverick VIÑALES Yamaha 40’14.632
  2. Marc MARQUEZ Honda +3.059
  3. Andrea DOVIZIOSO Ducati +5.611
  4. Valentino ROSSI Yamaha +5.965
  5. Alex RINS Suzuki +6.350
  6. Franco MORBIDELLI Yamaha +9.993
  7. Fabio QUARTARARO Yamaha +12.864
  8. Jack MILLER Ducati +17.252
  9. Danilo PETRUCCI Ducati +19.773
  10. Joan MIR Suzuki +22.854
  11. Pol ESPARGARO KTM +24.821
  12. Francesco BAGNAIA Ducati +30.251
  13. Aleix ESPARGARO Aprilia +30.447
  14. Jorge LORENZO Honda +34.215
  15. Mika KALLIO KTM +34.461
  16. Hafizh SYAHRIN KTM +44.319
  17. Karel ABRAHAM Ducati +47.343

Not classified 

  • Johann ZARCO Honda 4 Tours
  • Cal CRUTCHLOW Honda 6 Tours
  • Andrea IANNONE Aprilia 9 Tours

Provisional classification of the 2019 MotoGP championship

  1. Marc MARQUEZ Honda 395
  2. Andrea DOVIZIOSO Ducati 256
  3. Maverick VIÑALES Yamaha 201
  4. Alex RINS Suzuki 194
  5. Danilo PETRUCCI Ducati 176
  6. Fabio QUARTARARO Yamaha 172
  7. Valentino ROSSI Yamaha 166
  8. Jack MILLER Ducati 149
  9. Cal CRUTCHLOW Honda 133
  10. Franco MORBIDELLI Yamaha 115
  11. Pol ESPARGARO KTM 94
  12. Joan MIR Suzuki 83
  13. Takaaki NAKAGAMI Honda 74
  14. Aleix ESPARGARO Aprilia 56
  15. Francesco BAGNAIA Ducati 54
  16. Andrea IANNONE Aprilia 43
  17. Miguel OLIVEIRA KTM 33
  18. Johann ZARCO Honda 30
  19. Jorge LORENZO Honda 25
  20. Tito FLAP Ducati 18
  21. Stefan BRADL Honda 16
  22. Michele PIRRO Ducati 9
  23. Hafizh SYAHRIN KTM 8
  24. Sylvain GUINTOLI Suzuki 7
  25. Karel ABRAHAM Ducati 7
  26. Mika KALLIO KTM 3

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