"We hope to make a further step in the next three days. I am pleased with how Yamaha is working, we have the potential but we need to find the way to prove it". A confident but cautious Fabio Quartararo, given the progress of recent seasons, has unveiled the M1 that will run the MotoGP 2024 world championship, along with his teammate Alex Rins. The setting was the Sepang circuit where, from tomorrow to Thursday, the top displacement bikes will hit the track for the first official tests of the season. The desire to return to being a protagonist of the world championship is "great, great", repeated the Frenchman, world champion in 2021, when asked by Sky Sport. "Everyone knows that 2023 was not positive; neither for me nor for the team.

We really hope to get back on top. Thanks to the concessions during we will have a bit more tests available to develop the bike". The 2024 concessions, introduced to try to reduce the gap between the various teams, (linked to the percentage of points each one has won, assign proportionally tires and test days, but also the possibility to develop the engines, ndr), have allowed Quartararo to test the new Yamaha engine in advance, but also "aerodynamics and chassis. There are positive aspects, but also negative ones". The minimum goal for 2024 is to be a protagonist again: "I can't talk about the final result, but I want to go back to winning. I only have this in mind. I don't know if it will be a short or long process to return to victory, but I will achieve it with my team this year".