Quartararo announces himself as a true title contender
MOTOGP
JEREZ (ESP)
19 JULY
ROUND 1
The tears of anguish Fabio Quartararo shed in last year’s Spanish Grand Prix, when a gear-shifter problem denied him a maiden podium a day after scorching to his first MotoGP pole, were replaced by tears of joy at Jerez last Sunday. Aged just 21, Quartararo made history by becoming the first French rider to win a premier class race since Regis Laconi at Valencia in 1999, when Quartararo was only four months old.
But the day should have gone differently.
