Fabio Quartararo crashed out of the 2025 MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix while running in 10th place on Sunday, as no Yamaha rider managed to score a top-10 finish in Alcaniz.
Factory star Alex Rins was the top Yamaha rider in the Aragon GP, but the 29-year-old hit the finish line in P11 and 19.646 seconds off the lead. Test rider Augusto Fernandez also finished a further 6.34s back in P13 ahead of Pramac pair Jack Miller (P14) and Miguel Oliveira (P15).
Marc Marquez dominated to win the Aragon GP to hand Ducati their sixth victory in the first eight rounds of the 2025 MotoGP season. He even took pole position at MotorLand, ending the run that Quartararo had enjoyed of late after his poles at Jerez, Le Mans and Silverstone.
Quartararo could only qualify in P9 for the Aragon GP to lead Yamaha’s hopes. But the Iwata outfit saw the Frenchman endure a weekend he will want to forget, as Quartararo lamented Yamaha’s ‘dangerous’ rear chatter after the Aragon Sprint having slipped to P11 on Saturday.
Fabio Quartararo fears for Yamaha at Mugello after their chatter problems at Aragon
Quartararo also retired on Lap 13 of 23 in Sunday’s Aragon GP after crashing at Turn 1 as his Yamaha YZR-M1 was ‘unstable’. The 26-year-old had suffered from rear chatter all weekend at MotorLand Aragon, but Yamaha would not dial out their problem ahead of the Grand Prix.
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He even admits that Yamaha do not know why their chatter problems were so severe in the Aragon GP. So, Quartararo fears his crew will also be ‘lost’ at the Italian Grand Prix next time out, as they will not be able to utilise the M1’s electronics at Mugello if the chatter returns.
Quartararo said after the Aragon GP, via quotes by SPEEDWEEK: “[We started out] pretty OK. [But] after five or six laps, the bike became increasingly unstable.
“[The issue was] something else that we don’t really know why it’s happening. I think we’re more likely to get lost than to use [the M1’s electronics] to our advantage [at Mugello].”
Fabio Quartararo will hope Yamaha find answers in Monday’s Aragon MotoGP test
Quartararo will hope Yamaha can find answers to explain the chatter problems that plagued his weekend during Monday’s post-race MotoGP test at MotorLand Aragon. Yet any answers the Iwata outfit find will not be totally relevant given the extra rubber that will be laid down.
It will be even more important for Quartararo’s hopes of preventing a repeat at Mugello that Yamaha’s engineers can find answers in his data from the Aragon GP before travelling to the Italian GP on June 20-22. Quartararo has not achieved a top 10 finish at Mugello since 2022.
A disappointing time at the Aragon GP was also among the last things that Yamaha and their 2021 MotoGP champion rider would have wanted after Quartararo retired from the British Grand Prix. His rear ride height device became stuck while leading on L12/19 at Silverstone.
