Quartararo came to Le Mans as leader, but had many pending roles

Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1) arrives as championship leader in the MotoGP French Grand Prix which this weekend will be held at the Le Mans circuit, where he will have to perform many of the pending roles.

Quartararo already knows what it feels like to win because he made it clear in Portimao (Portugal), but He barely accumulated seven points ahead of his immediate chaser, Aleix Esparargaró and his Aprilia RS-GP, real stars at the start of the season due to the great performance the duo showed.

The French driver, current world champion, goes without the Yamaha YZR M 1 the best “travel companion”although everyone indicates that at the events in France and the fifteen days in Mugello (Italy), he could receive new developments from the manufacturer Iwata, who is doing everything to convince his champion to sign the contract. renewed his contract.

Fabio Quartararo’s only goal is to have the necessary weapons to be competitive, the main reason for putting pressure on Yamaha, that there is only and main defender in the Frenchman, because neither the Italian Franco Morbidelli, from the official team, nor the South African Darryn Binder and the Italian Andrea Dovizioso, from the satellite squad, are not performing at the level expected of them, though in the case of the African he has the benefit of being a debutant in the category, which gives him some “favors”.

Aleix Espargaró remains stable and regular in the fastest in the category with the Aprilia RS-GPwhich makes it clear that both the manufacturer from Noale and the rider from Granollers have reached the elite of the category and made it to stay, though also cannot be said of their colleague, Spanish Maverick Viñales. , which is unfinished. feel comfortable on the bike.

In front of Fabio Quartararo and in ‘his house’, Marc Márquez is expected to be closer and more competitive (Repsol Honda RC 213 V), which makes short but continuous steps in finding its best performance and also a more effective evolution of the motorcycle, because, for now, he does not like.

His colleague, Pol Espargaró was a bit more complicated and other than the podium in the inaugural race in Qatar, he didn’t finish the performance show on his Repsol Honda RC 213 Vwhich he was on the “trigger” (there are rumors that they may tell him they won’t be with him from 2023) until the renewal of concern and especially when the Suzuki riders, the Spanish Joan Mir and Alex Rins, has already been announced by the Hamamatsu manufacturer, who will retire from the competition at the end of the season.

For this reason all alarms sound on other structures because world champion Joan Mir is one of the most coveted drivers in the championship and Alex Rins is also no rival to despise.

Mir and Rins are both stars in the ever -growing start of the championship, with the second of them in fourth position and the first in sixth. Both need to endorse that behavior with successbut it is not really reasonable to think that sooner or later they will climb to the top of the podium.

Like Marc Marquez, Fabio Quartararo has had to keep a close eye on the official Ducati riders since the arrival of Italian Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia with the pretense of his victory in Jerez and Australian Jack Miller, who is fifth in Spain, maintains a very regular line, not forgetting Italian Enea Bastianini.

Bastianini, on the Gresini satellite team, has had two wins so far this season and a third in the championship.that’s why Ducati managers are already focused on him because of the results achieved on the handlebars of last season’s prototype, the GP21.

KTM factory riders Brad Binder of South Africa and Miguel Oliveira of Portugal are others who need to step up to where the Austrian manufacturer expects them to be.

Jorge Martín (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) was another of the riders who made a strong start, albeit irregularly.the 2022 season, like his teammate, Frenchman Johann Zarco, who has one of his favorite venues at Le Mans and, therefore, could be one of the contenders for victory or, at least, for the podium.