{"id":763244,"date":"2026-06-27T07:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763244\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T07:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:20:24","slug":"motogp-quartararo-id-rather-talk-about-france-at-the-world-cup-than-about-my-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763244\/","title":{"rendered":"MotoGP, Quartararo: \u201cI\u2019d rather talk about France at the World Cup than about my Friday\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disappointed, frustrated, and bitter. These are perhaps the adjectives that best describe Fabio Quartararo\u2019s state of mind at the end his Friday at Assen. Topping the Yamaha riders in the Dutch Pre-Qualifying timesheets with the 15th-fastest time, the 2021 World Champion failed to secure one of the spots that were up for grabs, in order to advance to the Q2, so he’ll have to start from the back of the grid again this weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cI won\u2019t comment on how the day went, but, as you can imagine, it was difficult. Why? Because of what we have at our disposal. I think the goal right now is to fight for points and try to make the most of what we have,\u201d Quartararo replied, laconically. At the end of the session, he made no secret of his disappointment and said he\u2019d rather talk to reporters about the French national team\u2019s performance than about his Friday: \u201cOf course, their performances are definitely better.\u201d<\/p>\n

MotoGP\u2122\ud83c\udfc1 (@MotoGP) June 26, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n

Quartararo is facing many problems, especially in struggling to navigate corners on the M1.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t seen any improvement. We won\u2019t make progress in that area. We need to improve on all fronts because we have no grip, zero steering, and zero power. I\u2019m trying to make the most of braking, especially on the straights, because that\u2019s the only place where I can brake hard. But I can\u2019t get the bike to go. Like I said, scoring some points on Sunday would be great,\u201d El Diablo reiterated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disappointed, frustrated, and bitter. These are perhaps the adjectives that best describe Fabio Quartararo\u2019s state of mind at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[262932,64,63,16230,364018,5745,806,805,803,804,85,3561],"class_list":["post-763244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-assen","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fabio-quartararo","tag-monster-energy-yamaha","tag-motogp","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-yamaha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763244","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=763244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}