2021 MotoGP World Champion Fabio Quartararo has confirmed that he is in talks with Honda about his future.

Motorsport.com reported last week during the MotoGP Sepang Shakedown test that Quartararo had signed with Honda for the 2027 season, a move which would end his collaboration with Yamaha that began when he first stepped up to the premier class in 2019.

Speaking to MotoGP.com ahead of the official Sepang test this week (3–5 February), Quartararo did not deny that he is speaking with Honda at the moment, but said that nothing is yet signed between himself and any manufacturer for 2027.

“I can’t [say] much,” Quartararo said.

“The only thing I can confirm is that nothing is signed yet. 

“We are talking, of course, with teams, Honda is part of it. But [at the moment] nothing is done.”

Quartararo added that he has no fixed date he wants his future to be decided by.

“There is no deadline,” he said. “I think we have to consider all options. I don’t have a deadline in my head.”

Yamaha V4: “The best thing is to have no expectations”

Quartararo began testing for the 2026 season on the second day of the Shakedown test along with the rest of Yamaha’s race riders bar rookie Toprak Razgatlioglu who was on-track in Malaysia from the first day.

Having been riding the V4 in tests since the second half of 2025, Quartararo thinks there is no sense in having expectations for the new bike in its first season.

“I think the best thing to do is to have no expectations at the moment because we know it’s a completely new bike,” Quartararo said.

“I think we have to make a lot of steps. 

“Of course, we saw that it’s a brand new project; still we are slower than last year but we have to take the real job, try to make some big steps forward and try to make the best races possible.”