A new MotoGP season provides the chance to start again for riders up and down the field, but there are some who cannot afford for 2017 to go awry. Jamie Klein picks five competitors who are most in need of a big year. Scott Redding (Pramac Ducati) What a difference 12 months makes. This time last year, Redding was turning heads with his pre-season testing pace on the Pramac Ducati, and looked like a contender – even if only an outside one – for a works ride with the Italian marque in 2017. But when it came to the crunch, the Gloucestershire-born rider just couldn’t quite convert that testing promise into hard results frequently enough, at least in the dry. Third in the wet at Assen...
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