Fabio Quartararo
French motorcycle racer (born 1999)
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- Fabio Alain Quartararo ( pronounced [kwartaˈraːro] ; born 20 April 1999), nicknamed El Diablo , is a French Grand Prix motorcycle rider racing in MotoGP for Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team.
- Prior to his Grand Prix career, Quartararo won six Spanish junior championship titles, including successive CEV Moto3 titles in 2013 and 2014.
- He failed to meet the high expectations in the Moto3 and Moto2 World Championships, but made the move up to MotoGP with Petronas Yamaha SRT, and finished as rookie of the year in 2019 with seven podiums and 5th place in the overall standings.
- Biography Fabio Quartararo was born in Nice, France, to a family of Sicilian origin.
- On 14 July 2022, he was awarded a Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Fabio Alain Quartararo (pronounced [kwartaˈraːro]; born 20 April 1999), nicknamed El Diablo, is a French Grand Prix motorcycle rider racing in MotoGP for Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team. Having won the 2021 MotoGP World Championship, he is the first French World Champion in the premier class' history.
Prior to his Grand Prix career, Quartararo won six Spanish junior championship titles, including successive CEV Moto3 titles in 2013 and 2014. Due to his successes at a young age, he has been tipped for "big things", even being compared to multiple time world champion Marc Márquez, and set various age records during his progress up to World Championship level. He failed to meet the high expectations in the Moto3 and Moto2 World Championships, but made the move up to MotoGP with Petronas Yamaha SRT, and finished as rookie of the year in 2019 with seven podiums and 5th place in the overall standings. After collecting 3 victories in the compressed 2020 season, Quartararo moved up to the Yamaha Factory Racing Team for 2021 replacing Valentino Rossi, and won the championship in his first season collecting 5 victories and 10 podiums.
Biography
Fabio Quartararo was born in Nice, France, to a family of Sicilian origin. His father, Étienne, was a motorcycle racer who had won the 1983 French 125cc Championship and raced in the 250cc class of the 1986 French motorcycle Grand Prix. On 14 July 2022, he was awarded a Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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