How Quartararo feels about his Jerez MotoGP rollercoaster

Fabio Quartararo says he has no regrets about the way he approached the MotoGP sprint at Jerez, despite failing to convert a milestone Yamaha pole into a strong race result at the first attempt.

Quartararo took an unlikely pole in qualifying in Saturday morning - finding "four tenths in my pocket" between two runs that he didn't expect to have. It marked his and Yamaha's first pole since 2022, but he then crashed out in a long-shot bid to keep Marc Marquez at bay in the sprint.

Marquez had already pounced on him at the start, but Quartararo divebombed him into Turn 1 and rode a wild opening lap before Marquez attacked again the second time through Turn 6.

Quartararo found himself on the outside and could not make the corner.

"I wanted to try to be leading the most as possible, unfortunately was just one lap and a half. I felt Marc on the straight was really close to me, my bike started to shake - a little bit wide and I lost the front," Quartararo said.

"It's a place [in the corner] where, I would say, nobody goes there. But just trying to be as close [as possible] to him, I lost the front, quite straight but, you know - it's three years that I've not been in this situation of leading a race, and I didn't care.

More angles of Fabio Quartararo's crash