Fabio Quartararo “fed up” and would have come to Suzuki “willingly”, says Livio Suppo

2021 world champion Quartararo saw his title defence crumble - he allowed a 91-point lead over 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia to slip (an all-time record comeback) ꦗlargely due to the performance of his bike.
Suppo, the team manager of Suzuki who will exit MotoGP befor🥃e 2023, believes he could have tempted Quartararo across.
“It seems to me that [Quartararo and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez] are quite fed up with their situa♌tion, to the point that♉ Quartararo would have come to us very willingly,” Suppo said to MOW Mag.
“And it𝔉 would have been fun to see him on a Suꩲzuki."
Suzuki left MotoGP on a high - with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Rins winning two of the final three races, including 🌸the V🍃alencia finale.
Rins and 2020 world champion Joan Mir will both feature in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP 2023 rider line-up for Honda𒅌, a team who endured a miserable sea𓄧son to forget.
Suppo is wary that the Japanese manufacturers, Yamaha and Honda, will enter 2023 with a sizablꦿe disadvantage against Ducati.

“Fabio and📖 Marc Marquez are two of the strongest riders, but on paper they will have to fight with their bike and this is a bit of a shame for the world championship,” he said.
“As for Fabio, I wouldn't want him to get to the point of stopping believing, he has been putting a [plaster] on it for many years: if the bike continue🥂s to suffer so much in top speed the chain could come down.
“Instead I think Marc has lost a bit of confidence in Honda, at least f𒉰rom the statements he makes and the fact th🐎at he stopped testing very early in Valencia.
“It seems that they don't b🦩elieve in it so much anymore, so it's really difficult to understand who will be more competitive with each other. It will depend a lot on how much the respective racing departments wi🅷ll be able to improve the bike.
“We 💧hope that this winter both Honda and Yamaha will be able, for the sake of the championship, to fix the bike.”

Suppo worked at Ducati in 2007 when168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Casey Stoner won th🌱e championship. The Italian team took 15 long years to crown another champion, until Bagnaia this season.
Bagnaia will have 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Enea Bastianini as his teammate next year - a potentially explosive duo who will both eye the title🎶 for themselves.
“They are two young, strong Italian riders, they both ride a Ducati, it's normal that there will be a big rivalry, but I think both are balanced and able t𝔉o handle this pressure,” Suppo said.
“The sparks on the track were🎃 made again this year, even if one bike was red and the other was not. But they never did anything excessive.
“I imagine that they will continue a🌱long these lines and that they will♊ be inconvenient customers for everyone else.
“This year they made a first and a third place in the world champꦿionship while Quartararo, who finished second, after the last tests in Valencia did not seem particularly happy with the development made, a bit like Marque🐻z.”

Jaꦅmes was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.