Starting from last place after a wet qualifying, Fabio Quartararo rolled the dice and fitted a range of different parts to his factory Yamaha for Sunday’s British MotoGP race.
The most obvious was the new, more aggressive fairing, featuring bigger front wings and Ducati-style diffuser vents.
The 2021 world champion made up seven places on the opening lap and had reached seventh place by the closing stages, when rain spots were falling. But he then collided with Luca Marini as they went back and forth, ripping off his fairing and forcing a pit stop. Nonetheless, “I cannot be more optimistic just because I make this kind of race. I know where is the problem, but I just give my 100%, try to fight.“I think if my starting position was a little bit better, I could have finished maybe between Martin [sixth] and the other guys. But for me the issue is when the track is really low on grip, we are losing so much.
While Quartararo ruled out riding with such an extreme number of changes again, the fairing - his one allowed update for the season - was among the few recent Yamaha developments to get his seal of approval for the future.
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