Quartararo joins Viñales at factory Yamaha for 2021-2022

2019 Rookie of the Year Fabio Quartararo will most definitely be part of Maverick Viñales at Yamaha Factory Racing MotoGP Team in 2021 and 2022.

Closing year’s outcomes confirmed that Quartararo is a weird expertise and a rider with a radiant future in MotoGP™. The 20-year historical from Wonderful, France, scored seven podiums (5x second get 22 situation and 2x third get 22 situation) in his debut season with PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team, which on the time was a establish-contemporary Yamaha satellite crew. He got right here tantalizingly shut to his first premier class pick on a quantity of events. Though it wasn‘t to be, his distinctive performances impressed many in 2019. In a roundabout draw, he secured fifth get 22 situation within the overall MotoGP™ standings, incomes him the Easiest Honest Team Rider honour by 27 parts, as properly as the Rookie of the Year title with a 100-point margin to the runner-up.

In 2020 Quartararo will yet yet again be a PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team rider, ending the second year of his present two-year agreement. Alternatively, this season he’ll be driving the factory-spec YZR-M1. Furthermore, he’ll expertise Yamaha’s elephantine enhance at some stage within the upcoming season, as properly as when he strikes as a lot as the Factory Team in 2021.

In 2021 and 2022, Quartararo will accomplice Maverick Viñales, whose two-year contract extension with the Yamaha Factory Racing MotoGP Team was announced the old day.

Lin Jarvis, Yamaha Motor Racing Managing Director: “We’re very chuffed that Fabio will most definitely be joining the Yamaha Factory Racing MotoGP Team line-up for 2021 and 2022. His outcomes in his MotoGP debut year were sensational. His 6 pole positions and the 7 podiums within the 2019 season were a obvious establish of his brilliance and distinctive driving abilities. Intelligent him to stir as a lot as the Yamaha Factory Racing Team after he completes his contract with PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team was a logical subsequent step. For the upcoming season he’ll be supplied with a factory-spec YZR-M1 and he’ll procure elephantine enhance from Yamaha. Fabio is greatest 20 years historical, nonetheless he’s already exhibiting astronomical maturity on and off the bike, and we are livid to bear him be part of us in 2021. Fabio and Maverick will present a gigantic stimulus to all of us within the Yamaha Factory Racing MotoGP Team to proceed to invent the YZR-M1 and leave no stone unturned in our quest for MotoGP World Championship victories.”

Fabio Quartararo: “I‘m delighted about what my management has completed within the old few months on the side of YMC. It was no longer easy to place, nonetheless now I if truth be told bear a obvious opinion for the following three years and I‘m if truth be told jubilant. I’ll work hard, like I did final year, and I‘m extremely motivated to reach astronomical performances. I if truth be told feel just like the winter duration is too lengthy – I‘m if truth be told livid to head to the Sepang take a look at subsequent week to stride my contemporary YZR-M1 and meet and work with my crew yet yet again. I’d if truth be told like to thank YMC and PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team, who bear given me the chance to enter the MotoGP class in 2019. I’ll give my all to carry out them proud yet yet again this year.”