Fabio quartararo delighted his fans during today's Grand prio de Aragon Sprint he rode from p17 on the grid to a hard-fought p8 across the Finish Line the Monster Energy Yamaha Rider had a lightning start and rocketed through the pack to settle in ninth place after the opening lap the Yamaha man had the race Pace to keep up with Raul Fernandez ahead of him and make a challenge with six laps to go he went for the pass and took eth El Diablo then chased down the rider ahead of him Franchesco Baga accompanied by a charging inia basini caught in a tussle between the two duites the Frenchman was relegated to ninth there were three laps left for him to try and overtake bagn after a trial run on the penultimate lap he made it stick on the final one with a block pass that earned him eighth place as he crossed the line 18.8 36 seconds from the winner quartararo said today was nice I saw some Riders have wheel spin in front of me so I took the opportunity made a great start and I tried to make the best of it the pace was not super fast in front of us we fought with great riders today like PCO and I had fun it was a good opportunity to bring a smile on the faces of the people in our box and also on my face we are giving it our our best and today's Sprint was a fun one for us we had a tough start to the Saturday and it ended with mixed results we didn't get the qualifying positions we had hoped for but in fp2 we could already see that Fabio and his crew had found something to improve his feeling with the bike because his Pace was decent on top of this he had an excellent start from p7 putting him in the perfect position to challenge other riders for Championship points while we still have work to do it was great for Fabio and for the team to see him battle with the Front Runners of the championship again and showcase his racing Talent Alex started the Sprint in p21 which is arguably one of the least desirable places to be in during the usually chaotic opening Labs he couldn't do more than recover a few places we will analyze the data and come up with a solution for tomorrow's race masimo merali team director added both Fabio quartararo and Alex rins are writing the latest Yamaha Evolutions from the Masano tests at Aragon the details engine chassis and of course aerodynamics these are the areas tested at Masano by the Monster Energy Yamaha Moto GP team in aerodynamics in particular it seems they have found an evolution that is interesting enough to be brought to Aragon on the Yamaha YZ RM ones of Fabio quartararo and Alex rins like the one currently used by ailia it is more of an optimization than a revolution even if almost all the carbon elements of the Bodywork have undoubtedly been modified [Applause] [Music]