The 2026 MotoGP season starts this weekend in Thailand, and Fabio Quattararo is frustrated with his Yamaha bike.
He was pushing for the 2021 championship. Yamaha To introduce the V4 engine for the 2026 campaign. Every quarter He has been putting a lot of pressure on Iwata’s outfit to provide him with a competitive machine.
But pre-season tests suggest they are far from competitive. The V4 experienced a number of issues, including one that stopped working on the second day in Malaysia.
But that’s what’s shocking. Yamaha isn’t planning any updates until Jerez.That means their riders have a speed disadvantage for the first four laps. That doesn’t bode well for Quartararo, who showed his anger at Buriram by giving the bike the middle finger.
at last , Yamaha failed their main purpose with the V4When they introduced him to convince the Frenchman to stay, but The Quattro is bound for Honda in 2027.. However, part of that failure may lie in the driver’s technical feedback.
Peter Bohm calls Fabio Quatararo a ‘spoiled boy’ over Yamaha complaints.
The 26-year-old’s frustration at V4 went viral on social media. Quatararo’s actions did not sit well with Yamaha.Nor did it with Peter Bom, who put it on him Oxley Bom MotoGP Podcast.
“I rate Fabio a lot on what he can do,” he said. But I’m surprised he’s still a bit of a spoiled brat after all these years.
“But when it comes, I mean, how much do you want to show everybody that the bike is no good? Jesus Christ, you can’t do that.”
“Go like that, look at the bike like that, every time it goes out, it comes back. But it’s like this, when you give him a reasonable bike, he goes very, very fast with him. When you give him a good bike, he’s a world champion, because he can do magic.”
But he can’t accept just doing work. Even I think he’s a s—– test rider. When the bike is good, he gives it his all. And you’ll see how good it is.
But you can’t develop something with him, he seems to be someone who can’t put things in perspective, if the bike doesn’t do exactly what you want and he’s not very fast with it, it’s zero, it’s the worst bike in the world, you can’t do that.
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Matt Oxley says Yamaha engineers think Fabio Quattararo is ‘very sensitive’ with technical feedback.
In response to the boom. Matt Oxley Yamaha engineers feel the Quattroro is ‘very sensitive’ in its technical feedback. Like Marc Marquez, for example, he cannot leave his emotions and explain constructively what is happening on the bike.
“I mean, when engineers talk to him, he’s like, he’s very sensitive to feedback.” “Emotions cloud what you do. I mean, you always think about going back to Marc Marquez.
“Whatever happens when he comes in, breaks down, wins the race, this happens, he comes back to the garage, sits down, takes his helmet off and starts talking.
“He deliberately suppresses all emotion, because he knows he’s going to be told, even before he opens his mouth, he’s telling the engineers what’s going on.
“But it’s not really that important, because it means he’s — he’s gone. Why? You know what’s going on. But Quattroro has had to get used to not being on a competitive bike.
“Bring it on, get over it, f— up, get on with your job. And if you’re sad, check your bank account.”
