Fabio Quartararo gets his first MotoGP podium !
Qualified in pole position at the 2019 MotoGP Catalunya GP after excellent testing, Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha satellite n ° 20) takes his first podium in the premier class on the Barcelona circuit where he won last year in Moto2. Debriefing.
Barely out of the operating room to treat her, the young French beginner never ceases to impress! Now 7th in the world championship with 51 points, he offered his very first podium yesterday in Barcelona !
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Admittedly, the fact of the race (debrief to be followed on MNC) which destroyed all the hopes of Rossi, Dovizioso and Viñales (even Lorenzo) from the second round allowed him to quickly gain three – even four – places, but that did not takes nothing away from his merit or his talent: Fabio Quartararo has successively ranked,,,, and – behind Marquez, which, all chauvinism aside, is a bit like finishing first !
"I am very happy with what we achieved today, especially since it was a very difficult race," sums up the young French prodigy now. "We had our best start of the year as I only lost two positions. Then I made a mistake on Turn 4, lost four more places and was still a little further behind!"
"Adrenaline"
“But I still found myself fighting for the podium and with a few laps to go I managed to take second place and attacked. Thanks to the adrenaline generated by this fight for the podium – and the meds – my arm didn’t bother me too much during the race, except on the last few laps where I started to have a lot of pain. But the reward of being on the podium is much greater than that! I had surgery twelve days ago and today I’m on the podium ".
“Since the European races started we have been very fast. This weekend the worst practice result was second. Our pace is very good, but we have to keep working as we have until ‘now".
"We didn’t know when"…
"I want to thank the team for the opportunity they gave me and for all the hard work they do. I am very happy to have given Petronas Yamaha SRT their first podium.".
"We knew that a podium would eventually come, but we didn’t know when," said Petronas Sepang Racing Team principal Razlan Razali. "We wish it every weekend, and now that it’s done it’s incredible. The whole team feels a lot of emotions and we are very happy with the result obtained by Fabio. It’s a very important day for him and his team, who are still less than a year old ".
Assen objective
"We have just arrived in MotoGP and we already have two pole positions and a podium," he said. "For me, it’s a great performance from the team and our drivers. I’m very proud of this whole project. We’re a little sad for Franco, because he was determined to make a good result here. I think today’s podium will motivate the whole team to improve things even further. Congratulations to all those who took part in this exceptional project ".
The team manager, Wilco Zeelenberg, for his part said he was "delighted with this second position for Fabio. We were impatiently waiting for one of our drivers to reach the podium, so I am very happy. As a team manager, he However, you have to look at the two drivers. But this race was a mixture of luck and bad luck … It’s a shame that Franco crashed when he was having a very good weekend. We have two drivers and we want him. better for both, and that will be our goal in Assen ".
Finally Eric de Seynes, CEO of Yamaha Motor Europe, salutes the "patient race" of Fabio Quartararo, remained "in ambush behind Petrucci and Rins who constantly push each other to the limit of the fault", then who "takes the ascendancy over his rivals and even manages to widen a small gap that will allow him to get this second place within 3 "of Marquez!"
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