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Quartararo stresses ‘quality over quantity’ with upcoming Yamaha MotoGP update

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The start to the 2024 MotoGP season has not been easy for Yamaha having scored just 19 points in the opening three rounds, with a best of eighth for Fabio Quartararo in the Portuguese Grand Prix.

Despite this, Yamaha has been able to snare Quartararo to a new two-year contract and has big updates planned for the coming races.

With tests lined up for after the Spanish and French GPs, 2021 world champion Quartararo admits the next month will be «busy» but is «quite optimistic» for the updates scheduled.

«It will be a busy test for us in Jerez,» he said. «Then after Le Mans, we have two days in Mugello.

«So, it’s going to be a busy month for us, but it’s the mindset for me right now. It’s not focused on the results but focused on trying to improve our bike.

«Of course, it’s difficult because I’m a winner and I want to finish the best as possible, but I think sometimes it’s great to make these kinds of things that we made this weekend.»

Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Factory Racing

Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Factory Racing

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Asked by Motorsport.com if Yamaha management had told him anything about the amount of updates it would be bringing, Quartararo added: «I think the amount is not the most important thing.

«It’s better the quality than the quantity. I think the quality of the aero that is coming, they are really optimistic because from 2019 till this year we were riding the same aero basically.

«This year is the first year we are racing with a different style of aero.

«So, basically, we are learning. From January we have made some big steps, but from January to April is just a few months and you cannot completely change your bike and mentality. But we are quite optimistic.»

Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Factory Racing

Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Factory Racing

Photo by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images

Despite finishing a lowly 12th in the Americas GP, Quartararo feels the weekend was positive overall as Yamaha has been able to confirm exactly what its main issues are.

«I mean, the direction we know what we need,» he said. «So, this is something really positive because it’s three races and three races where we missed exactly in the same areas.

«This weekend was great because we basically tried many, many things. Now we turned around all the settings on the bike.

«We need new items to really improve. It’s coming, it’s on the way, but I think right now the goal is on improving our bike and not focus on the results.»

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Rossi-like Acosta can’t be ruled out of MotoGP title fight

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Ahead of the fourth event of the season at Jerez this weekend, Acosta is fourth in the standings, just two points behind third-placed Maverick Vinales and five points behind second-placed Enea Bastianini.

The Spaniard is the best-placed of the four KTM riders, with factory man Brad Binder five points behind him in sixth and Jack Miller 32 points adrift in 10th. Acosta’s team-mate Augusto Fernandez has only seven points to his tally compared to his score of 54.

With Acosta now more adapted to the new ecosystem and his GasGas Tech3 team, most of his rivals believe that the next natural objective, victory, will come sooner rather than later.

The 19-year-old from Murcia has been on the podium in Portimao and Austin, the last two events on the calendar.

He failed to reach the podium in his first race in Qatar due to a combination of factors including the high degradation of the tyres as a result of his aggressiveness, and the pain in his forearm, a consequence of the bad positioning of the lever of the rear height device.

«Pedro reminds me of those big names who once made it to MotoGP: Valentino Rossi, Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo or Casey Stoner,» Marquez told Motorsport.com

«Those who in the first or second races were already fighting for pole, podiums and victories. This year he will get podiums, as he has already done, and also victories. And why not fight for a world championship, like others did.»

The widespread feeling in the paddock is that Acosta has shaken up the championship and especially the KTM group, although there are those, like Marquez, who believe that the youngster’s talent has not caught anyone by surprise, because it was a foregone conclusion.

Marquez says he was not at all surprised by Acosta’s breakthrough in MotoGP, and believes that KTM was well aware of the potential of the young rookie, who has scored two podiums in his first three races in the top class.

«I don’t think Pedro shook up the KTM group,» Marquez said. «They knew exactly what they had. I think they expected it; at least I expected it.

«When you analyse the things he did in Moto3 and Moto2, you knew he would get to MotoGP and go fast. It’s his natural process,» added Marquez, who is eighth in the standings, 16 points behind Acosta.

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