Quartararo finds himself with more options in Thailand than in Japan

Since the Japanese GP, a new Media Day modality has been launched at the Grand Prix with a press conference with the contenders for the title and another with highlights of the previous race. And the French Fabio Quartararo became one of the central axes of the first of the press conferences at the Chang International Circuit in Buriram, circuit where he starred in the race in 2019, the last step of the world championship through Thai circuit new. the pandemic. He entered with 18 points against Bagnaia and 25 over Aleix Espargaró, but the memory of the gray race in Japan still hung in the air and of the three big favorites he was the only one to score points.

as Motegi remembered

“It was a frustrating race, because I couldn’t overtake. We had a very good pace, but we were stuck and on this circuit I think we can manage the situation well to have a good result. In any case, I think about the rain or not, we can have a good result, although the first two sectors will be difficult for us, but I’m ready.”

where time can be made

“I can make the time anywhere, in the braking zone we are quite strong in the dry with the new chassis and in the wet we will see, in Motegi I was too aggressive and it didn’t work, in the wet you have. to be smooth and smooth and it didn’t work “

water forecast

“I didn’t remember that in 2019 there was water, we had to give our best and try to find our rhythm like we did in Motegi, the first few laps were good but we couldn’t do it in qualifying”

There is no technical improvement solution

“We can’t do anything because we have the same bike at the beginning of the year, we have put a new chassis but it’s not a big change so we can’t do anything either but next year will be more fun for us, because we will have a machine that with higher performance, they are making a new evolution, so maybe next year we will have more facilities”.

It’s hard to ride in the wet in MotoGP

“Last weekend in Motegi it was difficult, when we had a red flag for the crash of Pol Espargaró, there was equipment or new rubber, and there were many slips on the straight and dangerous, another dangerous issue was the issue of ‘aquaplaning’ and ‘spray’ when we are behind the other pilots”.

“In practice it’s not a problem, because you ride alone, but in the race, when you’re behind another rider, it’s dangerous, because you can’t see anything and today I saw the track and it was raining yesterday. , a lot, although I think here it won’t be that much of a problem either, because there will be good drainage”