Japanese MotoGP: Fabio Quartararo details talks with top Yamaha boss: "Important to take more risk”

Fabio Quartararo admits Yamaha has to take more risk if they want to become a force in MotoGP again.
Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha MotoGP Motegi 2023
Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha MotoGP Motegi 2023

Since the end of 2021 Yamaha has slowly fall🧜en down the MotoGP pecking order, and now arguably have the worst bike on the grid alongside Honda.

As a re✅sult Quartararo has been a very frustrated figure and has pleaded with Yamaha to change their approach.

Without a victory since Sachsenring last season, Quartararo has just two podiums in 2023, one of which came at the last round in Ind🍨ia.

The French rider’s latest meeting with Yamaha’s top brass was another chance for him to demand more from the Japanese brand, and although it was a ‘really good meeting’, Quartararo wants actions to speak louder than wor꧙ds𓃲.

Qu𒉰artararo said: "That is my conversation every weekend! I had a chance to talk y🌠esterday to the Yamaha president and the top management of the engineers. 

"It is super i🎉mportant for them, in the future, to take much more risk. For a better year next year. It is important for 2024. 

"It’s confidential, what we talk about. We had a really🐠 good meeting but it’s only words. Now, it’s time for reaction. 

"How I feel on the bike is most important. We need to feel the improvement and be f🍌aster."

Expecting a tougher weekend compared to the inaugural Indian MotoGP, Quartararo is not holding oꦓut much hope of a repeat performance at Motegi.

"It is going to be difficult," said the 2021 world champion. "W♐e have to start the weekend to give our best, the most important for us is to be in the top 10 on Friday afternoon. 

"Mꦉore than half of the problem is ꧑here. I must try to be in Q2 straight away."

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