Fabio Quartararo has revealed he nearly stopped at the start of the MotoGP Aragon sprint as his Yamaha engine was already having issues before it blew up. The French rider endured a difficult weekend at Aragon, starting from 17th after a poor qualifying, and eventually retired on lap five of 11 when his engine expired.
The 2021 world champion explained that the problem was apparent from the start, with power gradually fading before the engine finally gave out. "I think it's easy to see what happened," he said. "But from the start already, the engine, I nearly stopped at the start. And then I was losing power step by step. And it happened to me in Thailand. I knew something was wrong until the lap where we all saw what happened. So, nothing really to say."
Quartararo had already lost an engine from his allocation earlier in the year, leaving him with just three fresh units until the 19th round, when he can use a 10th. However, he is unsure which engine from his allocation blew up on Saturday at Aragon. "To be honest, I don't know how many engines we have," he added. "But I think we have not so much left. So I don't know if it was used or not. But all weekend this bike was really slow. We had to test a lot of things during the weekend. So I jumped from one bike to the other. It was more about testing than trying to find performance this weekend. But I hope it was a high-mileage engine."
Beyond the engine issue, Fabio Quartararo has been playing test rider for Yamaha this weekend, evaluating several new parts, including a new chassis which he says is "worse" than his standard one. "Yes, it's worse," he said of the new frame. "Yesterday, I said it was worse. They wanted to compare again this morning. It was worse. So I think, as I said, I was more about test rider this weekend, testing three times the chassis. But it was not working. We had a new link also, was not improved. So I basically ran with a standard bike. But when you jump to one chassis, one other, even if the difference is not too big, already the feeling is not there. But I was a bit confused. But it is what it is. And we are trying to find more performance."
The engine failure adds to a challenging season for Quartararo, who must now carefully manage his remaining engine allocation. Yamaha is pushing hard to develop a more competitive bike, but results at Aragon show there is still much work to be done.
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