Fabio Quatararo says he felt ‘lost’ on Yamaha bike after reaching Czech Grand Prix finish

In the year The 2021 world champion has back-to-back top 6 finishes at Le Mans and Barcelona but has not finished higher than 13th in any race since.

What did you make of Fabio Quattro’s attitude at Yamaha this season?

Are you sympathetic or do you feel he is being disrespectful?

Fabio Quatararo: I knew what I was doing last year, but I don’t know anymore

Quattararo suffered nine DNFs in Sprints and Grands Prix last year, placing him joint third on the grid. This year, he only has two, and one of them is for mechanical reasons.

The Frenchman has been more reliable on the bike this year but less explosive. In the year He has qualified on pole five times in 2025 but has reached Q3 in three of his first nine races.

The roof of the V4-powered M1 is clearly low at this level, but the Quattroro is forced to ride carefully because it doesn’t fit the front-end of the motorcycle.

“The problem is, I knew what I was doing last year,” he explained. Paddock-GP. “I knew where the limits were, I knew where to push, but this year I was lost in terms of the bike’s capabilities.

“Of course there’s no potential, but even when there’s no potential, there’s a limit. And you never feel that limit. The front-end feeling you want when you hit a deadline, it’s not there.

“No traction, no cornering ability, no power on climbs.”

Quartararo is absent from Monday’s private 2027 test. Due to Bruno’s imminent move to Honda, that should be announced in the coming days. Pramac’s Toprak Razgatlioglu and Yamaha test rider Augusto Fernandez are in action instead.

At the beginning of this year Quattararo was dry about criticizing Yamaha.But that anger may have given way to apathy for the rider, who now sits 16th in the championship.