Motorsport Week begins its MotoGP Season Review feature pieces by delving into the rookie season of Fabio Quartararo, who emerged from Moto2 mid-grid obscurity to seriously threaten runaway champion Marc Marquez in 2019. It’s fair to say many were underwhelmed when the new-for-2019 Petronas Sprinta Racing Yamaha satellite team announced Fabio Quartararo would partner Franco Morbidelli, having failed to agree terms with the likes of Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo. Once upon a time Quartararo was regraded as one of the rising stars of grand prix motorcycle racing, having graduated to the Moto3 World Championship off the back of a dominant CEV Moto3 campaign in which he won nine of the...
Full Story »