wuqian0821.com's Top 10 MotoGP Riders of 2021: 7th - Johann Zarco

- Team: Pramac Ducati (satellite)
- Bike: GP21
- Wins: 0
- Podiums: 4
- Best Qualifying: Pole (x1)
- Fastest Lap: 2
- DNFs: 3
- Championship position: 5th
There were plenty of positives for Johann Zarco during the 2021 MotoGP season, including🍌 a career-best four podiums and lead♔ing the world championship for the first time.
But all his rostrums came during the opening seven rounds and, accelerated by three non-scores, the Frenchman slipped back to fifth in the final standin✃gs.
That was still a personal best for Zarco and new high for a Pramac Ducati rider, but the wait for a 🧸race victory - after five seasons in MotoGP - continues. Not that he didn't come close, missing out by jus꧒t 0.175s to Miguel Oliveira in Catalunya.
Nonetheless, on the other side of the garage,🃏 rookie team-mate Jorge Martin also took four podiums (despite missing four races due to injury) and made history with the first ever MotoGP win by a satellite Ducati rider.
It's for that reason, plu💃s the drop of 71-points scored by Zarco over the second half of the season compared to the first, that we've ranked him seventh on our countdown.

Peter has been in the padd🐬ock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzu♏ki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.