"The true story" of the beginnings of Fabio Quartararo: "There was a lot of manipulation behind"

• Champion Quartararo does not fail

"I'm not going to tell you the beautiful story, I'm going to tell you the real story",

advances

and recounts the beginnings of

. For six years, from 2010 to 2016, he was his manager, he was his sponsor, he was almost like his father and now ... "Sadly I have to say that in a long time I have not received a single call from him. I did not want to make noise because of what happened and I imagine that his family will have told him everything ", accepts Martín before returning to the times when the new MotoGP champion was just a" chubby "child far, far from the World Championship.

There began the union between Eduardo Martín, a "financial advisor with a wide variety of businesses, from real estate to new technologies", and Fabio Quartararo.

There the success of a kid from Nice was cemented who went to live in Alfaz del Pi, near Benidorm, to find a place among the best.

How do you know Quartararo and why does he help you? Many people take credit for Fabio's discovery, but only one person deserves that credit.

And no I am.

I am a great lover of motorcycles, a frustrated motocross rider, but I am not its discoverer.

It all started because I decided to kill that little bug of mine by helping some young pilot.

I had the economic capacity to do it and I was excited, it was a personal project.

I talked about it with some friends and there was one,

, which pointed me to Fabio. His son [Marc] ran too, but he was very sincere and told me to go see Fabio, who was very talented. It was 2010, I was racing in Promovelocidad, in 80cc, I went to see him at Montmeló, they introduced me to him and there was chemistry from the first moment. Both with him and with his father. He was chubby, he was like a ball, he didn't have the right physique, but he had plenty of potential. We reached an agreement with the family: I offered them all the necessary resources for the boy to grow up, he could even live with me in Alfás del Pi, and in return I only asked them to remember what he had done if everything went well.

And they went well. Go if they were good. Under the orders of the coach and the dietician that Martín hired, Quartararo lost weight, strengthened and swept the youth ranks in Spain like never before. In 2013, already living in Martín's house in Alicante with his wife and children, already as the only driver of the team that Martín would create, the Frenchman became the youngest driver to win the Spanish Speed ​​Championship (CEV) -with only 14 years -and the following year he repeated the title. It was the greatest promise in motorcycling. 'The new Márquez', eager journalists baptized him, like the one who signs. "But people do not know the manipulation that suffered from behind," warns Martín and goes on to relate the two moments that could end Quartaro's career.

What do you mean? When Fabio began to emerge, they pointed to me as someone from outside the world and used him against me. For example, in 2013

[former 500cc rider] was the director of our team at the CEV and there was a moment when things started to go wrong. After a great start to the season, the results did not come out, Fabio got frustrated and one day his father, Etienne, told me that Borja had offered him a contract. I wanted him to disassociate himself from me and put himself in his hands. Then with the help of an expert like

[Leopard Racing technical director], I saw that the team was not repairing the engines, that they had lost power, and that this had been done so that Borja could present an offer to Fabio's family. I did not want to expose the situation to the press and Fabio was also CEV champion at age 14, but he could have been much earlier. And it is not the only time that something like this happened to him in his career ... In 2014 we reached an agreement with Emilio Alzamora for him to race at the Estrella Galicia and with them he made the leap to the Moto3 World Championship the following year, in 2015 , with 15 years. Now it is said that Fabio did not adapt well to Moto3, but he took the podium in the second race and took pole in the fourth, at Montmeló. There we began to see strange things again, Fabio became frustrated again, finally he ended up injured ...They wanted to stop him from coming up and to negotiate a new contract. From my point of view, they didn't want me to win the World Cup that season. There a fissure was generated with Alzamora and that is why the following year we went to Leopard Racing.

And that "following year", that is, 2016, the relationship between Eduardo Martín and Quartararo was broken. The already MotoGP champion, still in need of the Spanish circuits to train, continued to live in Alfás del Pi, but he was spending more and more time in Nice, with his family, between races. In fact, French never took root in Alicante, where he studied at a private school that adapted the calendar for him and where his main entertainment was talking by video call with

, his best friend and today assistant. In a recent interview with EL MUNDO, in fact, the pilot acknowledged that he had not set foot in what was his place of residence for several years. In the end he put himself in the hands of

, a former French Superbike rider, friend of the family, who had already commanded the races of

.

Quartararo, celebrating the title in Misano.DORNA PRESS OFFICE / DIEGO SPERANIEFE

How did your bond with Quartararo end? It was in Mugello, in 2016, but things have gone wrong before. That year his family decided that I should not travel with him and began taking people to the circuits to give him strange advice. For example: one of those advisers told Fabio to take the shadows as a reference for braking, as if the sun did not move. Trust had already been broken. In Mugello, his father and I argued and, in the middle of an argument, Fabio came in and agreed with me. His father got up ... I think he had no bad intention, but there was jealousy. One day he called me and said that he did not want me to see his son anymore. I got to form a legal team to claim in France, but in the end I gave up. I stopped everything and decided not to make noise. You cannot treat someone like a son and the next day see him in front of you in court.I would say that now Fabio's family is ashamed of how they treated me. I understand that he finally lost money with Quartararo. The investment was seven figures. More than one million euros. If the project had continued, he would have received compensation, a percentage as a representative. But, logically, in Moto3 I only received small amounts. Anyway, that was not the most important thing for me, I was not with Fabio to earn money. I had my businesses that worked, especially abroad, and motorcycling was a personal illusion. Then they offered to help other riders and I didn't want to precisely because of that, because I was looking for a bond of trust. Now I have a project underway and I hope to regain that passion.The investment was seven figures. More than one million euros. If the project had continued, he would have received compensation, a percentage as a representative. But, logically, in Moto3 I only received small amounts. Anyway, that was not the most important thing for me, I was not with Fabio to earn money. I had my businesses that worked, especially abroad, and motorcycling was a personal illusion. Then they offered to help other riders and I didn't want to precisely because of that, because I was looking for a bond of trust. Now I have a project underway and I hope to regain that passion.The investment was seven figures. More than one million euros. If the project had continued, he would have received compensation, a percentage as a representative. But, logically, in Moto3 I only received small amounts. Anyway, that was not the most important thing for me, I was not with Fabio to earn money. I had my businesses that worked, especially abroad, and motorcycling was a personal illusion. Then they offered to help other riders and I didn't want to precisely because of that, because I was looking for a bond of trust. Now I have a project underway and I hope to regain that passion.Anyway, that was not the most important thing for me, I was not with Fabio to earn money. I had my businesses that worked, especially abroad, and motorcycling was a personal illusion. Then they offered to help other riders and I didn't want to precisely because of that, because I was looking for a bond of trust. Now I have a project underway and I hope to regain that passion.Anyway, that was not the most important thing for me, I was not with Fabio to earn money. I had my businesses that worked, especially abroad, and motorcycling was a personal illusion. Then they offered to help other riders and I didn't want to precisely because of that, because I was looking for a bond of trust. Now I have a project underway and I hope to regain that passion.

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