20 for 20: the stats within the back of Quartararo’s 20 MotoGP™ races

After claiming his maiden MotoGP™ victory final weekend on the Gran Premio Purple Bull de España, Petronas Yamaha SRT had a search at a pair of of the stats within the back of Fabio Quartararo’s first 20 races within the premier class.

Quartararo’s 20th bustle on Sunday modified into one for the historical previous books as he grew to turn out to be the principle French premier class winner since Regis Laconi on the 1999 Valencia GP, and grew to turn out to be the principle satellite tv for computer Yamaha winner within the MotoGP™ period (the final being Garry McCoy on the 2000 Valencia GP). He is moreover the eighth youngest rider to pick within the premier class at 21 years and 90 days.

His debut season final 365 days, which modified into moreover the debut season for Petronas Yamaha SRT, saw him straight galvanize on the principle spherical in Qatar, setting the fastest lap spherical Losail World Circuit – an success that he repeated at Le Mans, his house Wide Prix. ‘El Diablo’ moreover grew to turn out to be the youngest ever MotoGP™ pole sitter in Jerez, in what modified into a historic day for the team, with Franco Morbidelli becoming a member of him on the front row of the grid after qualifying second.

After racking up six pole positions, seven podium finishes (five of which saw him on the second step) and breaking four-lap info (Jerez, Assen, Buriram and Sepang), it modified into no surprise that he grew to turn out to be 2019 Rookie of the 365 days in Japan with three races silent to head. The Frenchman moreover helped Petronas Yamaha SRT make a selection the Unbiased Groups Championship of their debut MotoGP™ campaign.

The enforced atomize from racing supposed that Quartararo needed to wait until final weekend in Jerez to pick fragment in merely his 20th MotoGP™ bustle, where he confirmed that being some distance from his Yamaha YZR-M1 for over four months has simplest sharpened his power. Over the path of the weekend, Quartararo broke the lap file (which he himself had situation the 365 days sooner than) twice on his manner to taking his seventh pole situation and, finally, his first MotoGP™ make a selection. It modified into his eighth podium and boosted his accrued factors total across the 20 races to 217.

Quartararo currently sits on the head of the MotoGP™ World Championship standings after his victory on Sunday. Will he live high of the pile when the riders attack the Circuito de Jerez-Angel Nieto but again on the Gran Premio Purple Bull de Andalucia?