Get MotoGP news in your inbox! By signing up to the newsletter you agree to receive emails from crash.net that may occasionally include promotional content Leave this field blank The Motorcycle Grand Prix history books will record that Franco Morbidelli got within just 13 points of becoming the first-ever satellite world champion of the four-stroke MotoGP era. To put that into perspective, the only other satellite riders to have finished MotoGP title runner-up - Sete Gibernau (2003, 2004) and Marco Melandri (2005) - were a distant 80, 47 and 147 points respectively from the top. Admittedly, the shortened 14-round season compressed the points standings, but Morbidelli's three wins still...
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