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Quartararo Extends Contract With Yamaha Through 2026

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MotoGP: Quartararo Extends Contract With Yamaha Through 2026

2021 MotoGP World Champion Fabio Quartararo has extended his contract to ride for the factory Yamaha team through the 2026 MotoGP season.
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Yamaha are not showing good form lately, but it's still not a bad place to be in the grand scheme, and Fabio's world title is worth most to Yamaha.
 
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Clearly Aprilia wasn't coughing the coin that Yamaha is.
Would have liked to see him on a more competetive bike but he is best placed to chose what is important to him
 
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Hopefully he knows something we do not about how Yamaha might become a contender. Sooner rather than later I would hope.

Seems a big ask at the moment.
 
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Aprilia offered 4 million. Yamaha 12. How much is your career worth? If yamaha doesn't get it together in the next two years Fabio will have no options left for a ride. Not to mention thats when the new rules begin so who knows what bikes will be good at that point.
 
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Sounds like Fabio and his advisors are looking at the big picture known as the rest of his life. Can't blame them for that. Sure he wants to win more championships but he has one and nobody can take that from him. At the end of 2026 he'll still only be 27 so he'll have some time. As Dub said, the new rules will come into play and is anyone really going to beat Ducati before 2027?
 
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12M per year to ride a bike that is not competitive? That seems insanely high, was 10 not enough??? what is the rational? it took 3 times as much money to keep him from going to a competitive bike. Sounds to me like Quartararo knows how bad the next 2 years will be a Yamaha, and he forced them to make him an offer he couldnt refuse.
 
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Hollywood said:
12M per year to ride a bike that is not competitive? That seems insanely high, was 10 not enough??? what is the rational? it took 3 times as much money to keep him from going to a competitive bike. Sounds to me like Quartararo knows how bad the next 2 years will be a Yamaha, and he forced them to make him an offer he couldnt refuse.
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He made the right choice in my opinion.
 
Which is more...winning when you make 6m or being dead last at 12?

Sponsorship has to be worth a lot, along with your legacy...
 
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Which is more...winning when you make 6m or being dead last at 12?

Sponsorship has to be worth a lot, along with your legacy...
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MotoGP is a business first and foremost, a passion for some and a money maker for others (a few lucky ones get both), I doubt many on the MotoGP grid are doing it just for fun anymore (I said many, not all, perhaps MM is the exception). I'll bet when all their agents start talks with the factories they are not sitting around the campfire getting giddy about how much fun they are having, it's all about the money and the endorsments/perks. FQ already has a championship under his belt, I doubt another one may come his way the way things are going, better to be a well paid bigger fish in a small Yamaha pond rather than a lesser paid smaller fish in a big Ducati/KTM/GasGas pond !

If Yamaha can get the bike sorted out then I think FQ will be worth the money, he'll be in the hunt, and I still have hope for Rins too !
 
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Be interesting to know if those numbers are correct, I'm betting not. Oriol Puigdemont I believe is the guy who claimed M Marquez made 20 mil. Marquez has said many times no one knows how much he was paid at Honda.

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