There’s no need to meet Quartararo face-to-face to guess what his morale was on the day his final hopes for the championship ended with his disguise scraping the asphalt. If 37 points from Me do not eliminate him from the fight, the difficulties that all Yamahas have suffered in Valencia are the requiem for a world title that would have …
“It was a crash similar to last year at Silverstone – he said about his mistake – Aleix Espargarò slipped in front of me and I hit the brakes in response and fell. However, I didn’t have any good feelings after the warm-up, it would have been a difficult race. I restarted the race, but the holeshot device was blocked, the stern stayed down “.
Even without all of these inconveniences, you get the impression that Fabio couldn’t have done much …
“Both Suzuki drivers are really quick – he continued – It’s been a really erratic season for me and for Yamaha while they are always on top. You are always one step ahead of us It looks like both drivers are really unbeatable. “
His balance cannot be positive …
“In this situation I feel bad – Fabio admitted – I can’t be happy with my season. With the Yamaha you win or nothing. When everything is perfect you can fight, otherwise you cannot do anything. To be honest, I was surprised that I was still leading the championship after the two races in Austria and also after the crash in Misano. Either we win or we are lost, in fact there were only two Yamaha riders on the podium in Jerez, the Suzuki drivers are there practically every Sunday and have only two motorcycles.
In retrospect, there seem to have been so many missed opportunities …
“I lost the championship today – he emphasized – but in the first race at Aragon I had the pace to fight for victory, but I didn’t get a point. I wanted less pressure on the front tire, but the Yamaha protocol said “No, and I had the toughest race of my life. We will have to change a lot of things in the next year because it seems that the other factories are working a lot better than us.
2021 will be the year he will join the official team and the responsibility will increase …
“The base will be the same but we have to understand how we can improve, Suzuki does it all the time. Morbidelli won last Sunday, we all went badly today. We are too inconsistent ”.
Quartararo also expressed doubts about the 2020 M1 …
“It’s changed a lot from the one I used last year and I still don’t feel like it’s mine – he explained – Usually when you start out from FP1 with good conditions you can make small changes, but if you don’t have time you are lost. It’s not just my fault and that’s why I wanted to finish this race to collect data for the next one. But it’s hard to accept my results ”.
However, he does not accept that some observers claim that he threw in the towel …
“I am so sad, but I am fully focused in my head – he said – Even if the championship is over, I have to defend second place, that’s how it went and I can’t do anything about it. I just focus on what I want – try to get into the championship as best I can. I feel good in my head, and We need to know what the problems are. I will do my best in the next few days ”.