The 2021 world champion reveals he was close to a Yamaha exit for 2025
Fabio Quartararo says he “was ready to leave” Yamaha at the end of the 2024 MotoGP season due to the Japanese brand’s dip in form.
Quartararo then went from battling for a second championship in 2022 to not even winning a race in 2023, while Yamaha is yet to score a podium this season - with a third in the Jerez sprint stripped from the Frenchman over a tyre pressure penalty. “That's what made me take the decision to stay at Yamaha, seeing meetings with people who came from other brands, who were working on very big projects .The arrival of Max Bartolini from Ducati as technical director at Yamaha was a major factor in Quartararo remaining with the Japanese marque.
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