MotoGP Catalunya: ‘My first goal is to have the best bike’ - Quartararo

Fabio Quartararo kicked off the Catalan GP by announcing his future remains with the Monster Energy Yamaha Factory Team.

Extending his contract with the Japanese manufacturer for a further two years, Quartararo is placing his faith in the firm to remedy the power deficit that has been frustrating the reigning MotoGP Champion.

“It was not an easy decision and we took a little bit more time to evaluate all the project,” Quartararo explained on Thursday, having assessed his options across the premier class paddock. “At the end, Yamaha make a lot of effort, bring a lot of new people and they know where they need to improve.

“The last two, three years they were in some areas and now they know where they need to improve and they know clearly is the power. So I’m super happy because they really understand, they are doing the best to find what we are missing and I believe in the project so that’s why we took the decision, I will not say days but few weeks ago, and of course was a good decision.

“My first goal is to have the best bike and best project, and they convinced me because they bring new people,” he continued. “They are working super hard and they know exactly where they need to improve. In the past maybe they were working on a few areas but they don’t really accept that the bike was more slow than the others. Now they know and they clearly work on this weak point so that’s what make me really took the decision to stay in Yamaha.

“Basically, as you can imagine, we were not talking only to Yamaha,” he admitted. “I took that much time because at one stage my head was going to one side then one week later I wanted to go there, was little bit difficult. What happened was about this engineers going into the engine side and