Fabio Quartararo: “I can understand” if Marc Marquez moves to Gresini Ducati
Marquez reportedly agreeing a switch to the Gresini satellite team has dominated talk in ﷽the paddock at the San Marino MotoGP this weekend.
And Quartararo, much like Marquez, is a former MotoGP champion now forcไed to languish at the back on a Ja🤡panese manufactured bike.
The Yamaha rider was ask꧙ed about the Marquez gossip and said: “I neverꦑ considered it. But I can understand it.
“I won’t go more into it. It will be fun to see.”
Asked if the move would be finalised, Quartararo said: “I don’𒀰t know. I’m not in Marc’s head. He’s the one to decide.”
Marquez and Quartararo’s current deals, with Honda and Yamaha resp🉐ectively, conclude at the end of 2024.
But Marquez could engineer a swifter exit in order to join Gresini, alongside hi꧅s brother.
It would leave Quartararo in a unique position, as ❀a hig𝕴h-profile rider on an underperforming bike, whose contract will be in its final year in 2024.
In Friday practice at Misano, Quartararo finished𝄹 13th, a place ahead of his teammate Franco Morbidelli.
“We tried the aero twice, a new setting,” he said. “In terms of lap time, I didn’t expect to do better. This is what I🐬 expected.
“I🐈t’s a shame we [went over] track limits but, when you’re on the limit, this happens.
“The new aero, for us, was clearly the way to go to be fas🦄t for♕ practice.”
Quartararo was asked if he’d keep the new aero on Saturday bꦍut replied: “No. It didn’t work. The feeling on the bike is totally different.
“It🐻 can b🔥e a good option but we need a lot of time to test it. The fairing is different, much bigger.
“We already lose a lot with power, and with us, we lose even moᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚre.&nbs🎐p;
“We made a step with the new aero but we need much more t𝐆ime to know that it’s working. If we are not in Q2 tomorrow, we🍎 know the race will be bad for us.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports f🤡or a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
