Moto GP: the coronation of Fabio Quartararo marks the start of a new era for this sport in France

Virginie Phulpin 7:29 am, October 25, 2021

Fabio Quartararo is Moto GP world champion. Yesterday, he became the first Frenchman to be crowned in the premier motorcycle category. For Virginie Phulpin, this title and the personality of the champion can mark the beginning of a new era for motorcycles in France. 

For a sport to become essential in a country, it needs headliners. And Fabio Quartararo has the most beautiful head of winners. A huge smile that crosses his face, tears of happiness that flowed over and over yesterday after his coronation, when this Marseillaise sounded that we had been waiting for since the debut of the motorcycle in 1949, and the tricolor that has not left the hands of the champion. Fabio Quartararo is obviously a precocious talent, from the top of his 22 years, a hard worker from an early age, and he is also an emotion on edge and an absolute love of his country and its discipline. Yes, he has everything for France to follow him and succumb to the charms of motorcycles.

For years, the Spaniards and Italians have won everything on the circuit.

Real motorcycle countries, which France is not yet.

But I found it quite symbolic that Fabio Quartararo was crowned world champion on Italian soil, on the day of the last race of Valentino Rossi, the ultimate star of the handlebars.

Like a passing of the baton.

Valentino Rossi's successor has Italian origins, he trained in Spain, but it is indeed France that he represents. 

And France can really become a country of motorcycles thanks to its champion?

Of course it will be necessary to confirm. Win again, fight epic battles to rock the general public. But already, the big motorcycle prices are broadcast on television now in France, on Canal Plus, and they are very popular. The Grand Prix de France attracts a large audience. So when a Frenchman becomes world champion, it looks like the little spark it took for the fire to definitely catch on. In addition, as we have said, Fabio Quartararo is only 22 years old. He can reign for a while and mark a whole generation.

Sometimes what puts off a little in the motorcycle, it is a sport which is expensive for the practitioners.

Obviously, the material is a little more expensive than football for example.

But precisely, Fabio Quartararo is not a "daddy's boy".

Finally, his father put all his heart so that his son could live by his passion.

But he did not have inordinate means at the start.

And that can give hope to other young people.

The French motorcycle federation is working on making its sport accessible to the youngest.

There is work, but Fabio Quartararo can be the perfect ambassador.

In addition to being king of the world.