{"id":182343,"date":"2025-10-01T10:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182343\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:51:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:51:04","slug":"fabio-quartararo-banking-on-different-tyre-for-fun-mandalika-motogp-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182343\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabio Quartararo banking on \u2018different tyre\u2019 for \u2018fun\u2019 Mandalika MotoGP races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabio Quartararo believes the different construction Michelin rear tyre used at the MotoGP Indonesian Grand Prix will create some \u201cfun races\u201d for Yamaha.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 world champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/news\/1082925\/1\/fabio-quartararo-clearly-impossible-goal-now-work-myself-after-japanese\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was less than impressed with his and the M1\u2019s showing<\/a> last time out at the Japanese Grand Prix, as a lack of rear grip left him 21.160s from the lead in eighth.<\/p>\n<p>For this weekend\u2019s Indonesian Grand Prix at Mandalika, Michelin will bring the stiffer rear carcass tyre it uses at circuits with especially harsh demands on its rubber.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2022, when the event joined the calendar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/911998\/fabio-quartararo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabio Quartararo<\/a> has managed a second-place finish and a third as recently as 2023, while last year he was a solid seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/monster-energy-yamaha-motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yamaha<\/a> event in Taiwan, Quartararo said this of the coming weekend: \u201cI had a great time in Taiwan, and I feel ready to go back to work.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Indonesia could be a good track for us. Last weekend in Motegi, we had a lack of grip, so it was difficult to fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet&#8217;s see what it will be like in Mandalika, where we will be riding with a different tyre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Indonesia could be a track where we could get some positive results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t really like talking big talk before a GP weekend, but I think we can make a good qualifying and good races here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m not sure about the possible results, but if I had to choose a track where we can have some fun races, it&#8217;s this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Yamaha\u2019s ongoing disappointing form comes as Japanese rival Honda once again breached the podium at Motegi.<\/p>\n<p>Joan Mir put his factory RC213V second on the grid and was third in the grand prix, adding to HRC\u2019s win at Le Mans and runner-up spot at Silverstone.<\/p>\n<p>Yamaha\u2019s only grand prix podium remains a second place from Quartararo at the Spanish Grand Prix &#8211; though he has had two sprint rostrums since.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese brand remains last in the manufacturers\u2019 standings, 40 points down on Honda five rounds to go.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fabio Quartararo believes the different construction Michelin rear tyre used at the MotoGP Indonesian Grand Prix will create&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,16230,806,805,803,804,85,3561],"class_list":{"0":"post-182343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fabio-quartararo","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-yamaha"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}