2021 MotoGP world champion rider profile: Fabio Quartararo
22-year-old French rider Fabio Quartararo is a MotoGP superstar in the making after the Yamaha factory rider clinched his maiden MotoGP world title following the crashes of his title rivals Francesco Bagnaia, Joan Mir and Jack Miller at the 2021 Emilia Romagna GP. Nicknamed "El Diablo" and "The French Devil", Quartararo is known with "dare to take any risks" and "super-aggresive riding skills" personalities.
In this article, I will give you MotoGP fans about a brief profile of 2021 MotoGP world champion, Fabio Quartararo; so check it out!
- Early career
Quartararo began his motorcycle racing career when he was four years old. He moved to Spain for competing in the Catalan junior championships. There, Quartararo coached by former 125cc rider Emilio Alzamora (who also worked as manager for Marc and Alex Marquez), where Alzamora established the CEV championships which divided into three classes: Moto3, Moto2 and Superbikes. In 2013, Quartararo competed in the junior Moto3 class, where all riders used the Honda-powered 250cc bikes. In his rookie season, the then 14-year-old had some ups and downs, but the Frenchman won the title by one point over Marcos Ramirez. In 2014, Quartararo was requested to race in the Moto3 world championship, but Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta denied him by saying that Quartararo is "too young to compete against world class riders like Jorge Lorenzo, Valentino Rossi, Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez". Quartararo however stayed in CEV Moto3 class and defended his title with nine wins and eleven podiums.
- Quartararo's Moto3 journey (2015-16)
In 2015, FIM, Dorna and IRTA introduced the rules of age limit for competing in world championships, where 15 year old is the minimum age required for racing in the Moto3, Moto2 and MotoGP world championships. Quartararo later debuted in his full-season Moto3 campaign, joining the Marc VDS Racing Team with Jorge Navarro. In his rookie world championship season, he scored his first two Grand Prix podiums in Austin and Assen. Despite injuries started haunting him at late-season, Quartararo finished 10th in the final standings, thus losing the rookie of the year status to his teammate Navarro.
- Moto2 struggle (2017-18)
- MotoGP superstar in the making (2019-present)
Days prior to his debut in the premier class/MotoGP where he signed with Petronas Yamaha SRT, Quartararo watched American teen drama "Make It Pop" on YouTube and watched the music videos for "Skillz", "Superstar", "Spotlightz", "The Rules" and "Walk That Walk" performed by multinational fictional girl group XO-IQ. Quartararo really learned from the lyrics of those songs. (just kidding)
Quartararo instantly became the center of attention after snatching his maiden MotoGP pole position at 2019 Spanish GP in Jerez.
The arrival of Quartararo to the premier class in 2019 shocked veterans like Marc Marquez, Jorge Lorenzo, Valentino Rossi, and Andrea Dovizioso, as they asked "when this young guy (Quartararo) will become a MotoGP world champion?" or "why did this young lad (Quartararo) come to MotoGP class to stop Marquez for winning his sixth world title?"
Quartararo stayed in Petronas Yamaha SRT for 2020, as he attempted to become the first non-factory rider to win the MotoGP world title. With three wins, but it is not enough for El Diablo to win the world title which won by Suzuki's Joan Mir.
At the 2021 Emilia Romagna GP, Quartararo's long wait is over. With Marquez's title hopes faded due to injury and Bagnaia's title hopes slipped through his fingers after crashing out, Quartararo finally achieved what he had dreamed since childhood: winning the MotoGP world title.
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