Fabio Quartararo dismissed the idea that the 2026 MotoGP season has become unusually unpredictable, attributing the drama at Silverstone to unique track characteristics rather than wider championship chaos.
After a difficult race that ended with a technical penalty dropping him from 12th to 16th, Quartararo said, “We didn’t have fun at all. We were surviving all the race, not able to push, looking at the others, how fast they were going in the beginning. So… yeah, one race less.”
Silverstone marked the twelfth different grand prix winner in as many races at the circuit, with Raul Fernandez leading Aprilia’s top-three sweep. Quartararo credited Aprilia’s “DNA” for excelling at high-speed corners, but noted, “It’s true that some tracks you can feel the DNA of some bikes are better.”
Despite Fernandez becoming the seventh different winner this season, Quartararo rejected the notion that the 2026 campaign is “weird.” “I think it’s not weird. Bezzecchi is back on the podium, Jorge is fast, Raul has been fast lately. Ogura crashed, but for sure he was also really fast,” he explained. “I think that Ducati struggled at this track. Last year they also really struggled, if I remember well. So I don’t think it’s a weird championship—it’s just a race that can happen that is weird.”
Looking ahead to Aragon, Quartararo expects a return to form from Ducati, particularly Marc Marquez, while also tipping Aprilia to stay competitive: “So I think it will be a really nice race in Aragon. Not for us, but for the spectators!”
Quartararo, recently confirmed as a Honda rider for 2027, remains philosophical about the unpredictable twists of MotoGP’s current era.
