The MotoGP World Championship calendar for the next year, featuring 22 Grand Prix races, was announced this Wednesday. It’s an absolute record, and according to Fabio Quartararo it cannot be exceeded.
The 2021 world champion considers that the main issue with the calendar is the intensity of each Grand Prix: ‘From my point of view, I think it’s the limit. It’s clearly the limit. The problem is not only the 22 races; it’s 22 sprints. Mentally, physically, the weekend is totally different. You see how many injuries are this year. Already from Friday morning you have to be on limit. Last year you could start the FP1 much easier more or less. You would make one time attack on FP2 and then on FP3 was when you really started to push yourself to the limit. With the schedule that we have you are on the limit all the time. And this for me is the problem’.
Quartararo is convinced that the calendar has now its maximum possible extension: ‘Of course I think more than 22 [GPs] isn’t possible because physically is tottaly different from Formula 1. And I think this is super important. About the salary, this isn’t my thing, I will not talk’.