Quartararo: "Out of control" Front Tyre Pressure To Be Blamed

MotoGP Rider, Fabio Quartararo says that the "out of control" front tyre pressure, after running three laps in the Aragon Grand Prix resulted in his worst career finish. Quartararo, Petronas SRT rider ran in second place in the early stages of the race. However, even after having started from pole, he quickly dropped down to the 18th position.

Quartararo is 21.5 seconds off the lead down in 18th position and also out of points, which lost him the championship lead to Suzuki's Joan Mir. He explained that an issue with his front tyre led to an increase in tyre pressure after just three laps which resulted in this worst career finish. However, the team is unsure as to why and how the issue occurred.

"[He's] really struggling because we were there in good shape to fight for a great result, but we need to find out why the front pressure went totally out of control, out of the normal," he explained.

"It really felt strange because we had the pace to fight, I would not say for the win or the podium, but the top five, six.

"Would have been great, but the front tyre went out of control and we don't know why.

"For me, the choice was correct because the first three laps were perfect.

"I had a great feeling and everything was OK, but the problem was from lap three we already had the pressure much higher than normal.

"And you can imagine with 20 laps remaining in the middle of the race how high the pressure was, it was totally out of control and we've never rode in this condition.

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"We couldn't brake, couldn't turn, couldn't lean the bike - so that's the reason why I was going so wide and couldn't stop the bike."

Quartararo had suffered from two crashes in practice and injured his hip. He mentioned that his physical condition gave him no trouble during the race.

With another race at Aragon next week, Quartararo says that he might struggle to gain pace against Suzuki in the Teruel GP.

"Looks like the Suzuki is really fast," he said, when asked by Autosport if the Suzukis will be harder to beat now.

"I think we can fight with them. Maybe in Aragon it's difficult, but then we'll arrive to tracks like Valencia where normally we are fast.

"In the November test with the new tyres we were going so fast there and I think we can fight with them, but we need to be really clever.

"The next race will be important to not lose any points and try to win points, which for me is so important.

"But I feel we can fight with them. In the end, it's only six points [to Mir] at the moment and we can fight for a great result."

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