His new senior team-mate, demoted from the factory squad, will be his friend and mentor Valentino Rossi. Surprisingly, however, Yamaha’s top man will spend next year again as the most junior, riding the same 2019 bike. Lucky to escape injury as innocent victim of a horror crash in Austria, robbed of a podium by engine failure at Jerez, Morbidelli ended up only 13 points shy of champion Mir.
Morbidelli carries a sort of serenity with echoes of his semi-compatriot, F1 genius Ayrton Senna, whose inspiration he channelled after his first dominant win at Misano. But as it wore on and Frankie added three wins to other strong finishes, the roles were unexpectedly reversed. This was the Brazilian-Italian’s second year with the new Malaysian-backed satellite team, where hitherto he had played second fiddle to fizzing French talent Fabio Quartararo. Funnily enough, the former Moto2 champion (25) was the most junior, and was riding a hand-me-down 2019 machine rather than the latest factory hot-rod. Of the four, Franco Morbidelli overcame this the best.
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Yet the latest version of the M1 was flawed and inconsistent, and most of its riders saw their championship hopes collapse in a series of backward steps. Yamahas won more races and scored more top-three finishes than any other bike. It will be interesting, to say the least.Ģ.
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Should Marquez return at full strength next year, the comparison will be made directly on track. Mir won the premier title at his 85 th race in all classes. By comparison Marquez took 46 races and another half-season. In his second Moto3 season he won a dominant championship after 35 starts. Self-contained and articulate, Mir’s career progress has been rapid – from the typical Spanish pre-teen action in highly competitive youth championships to the summit slopes. As a result, its riders could overcome average grid positions by making much ground in the later laps. It is fast enough, handles smoothly, and (crucially) is easy on tyres. Suzuki returned to MotoGP in 2015, and steady and unspectacular development has wrought a relatively straightforward and well-balanced in-line four. But nobody scored more top-three podiums.
Others won more races (although nobody more than three), others took pole positions and fastest laps. It was a fine win, showing consistency, tactics, persistence, opportunism and (of course) the necessary speed. He put that right at the third-from-last round, at the intense little Ricardo Tormo circuit outside Valencia. Aged 23, in his second year in MotoGP, Majorcan Joan Mir came close to a remarkable achievement – the first rider in premier-class history to become champion without winning a single race.
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