We deliver a score out of 10 for every MotoGP rider at 50% stage of 2024
Last weekend’s British Grand Prix marked the halfway point of the 2024 MotoGP season, with 10 rounds down and 10 left to run.
Further down the order, KTM has failed to make much progress with its RC16, though rookie sensation Pedro Acosta has managed to get the bike to the podium twice in grands prix, while Brad Binder has added one more to that tally. Mistake-prone through his 2022 and 2023 title-winning campaigns, he has suffered five non-scores across GPs and sprints this season. After crashing out of the lead of the sprint in Barcelona, he was 44 points off the championship lead. What followed was a brilliant run of GP wins in Barcelona, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany to take a 10-point lead into the summer break.
An injury-plagued 2023 stopped him from adapting to the GP23, and it was clear from the off that the GP24’s braking characteristics suited his style more. The brief form dip across the Spanish, French and Catalan GPs stunted his momentum from the opening rounds.#89 Jorge Martin - Pramac Racing. Grade: B+
Desperately needing time to understand the bike and also rebuild his confidence as a rider following his miserable stint on the factory Yamaha, we haven’t seen the best of Morbidelli yet. Adapting to the GP23 from track-to-track is also proving trickier than expected and the year-old package is starting to show its age against the GP24s.
Very much an outsider in that VR46 stable, the group has accepted him as its own and he’s rewarded it with a suitably excellent season so far. Battling with much of the same engine braking and understeer problems Bastianini faced on the bike last year, Bezzecchi has scaled the podium once. Vinales has only seen the podium in two sprints since and hasn’t cracked the top 10 since Assen, though sits fifth in the points.
Taking a while to adapt to the 2024 RS-GP and still not fully happy at the halfway stage, he has little to show for his efforts. That’s the best it has gotten so far for Fernandez, though he’s clearly shown enough to secure a two-year contract with Trackhouse. That said, Miller has struggled on the KTM this year and 42 points after 10 rounds with just a best of fifth in Portugal and no other top 10 on his scoresheet simply isn’t good enough for someone of his calibre.
Flashes of speed on a difficult package under immensely tricky circumstances, namely the lack of competitive team-mate to aid his learning, earned him a stay for 2024. Though, one has to wonder had Pol Espargaro not suffered such serious injuries if that would still be the case. While progress has been incremental but tangible, Quartararo is consistently extracting the best from that M1, scoring 49 points - 35 clear of the rest of those battling for the ‘Japanese Cup’. Had it not been for an unfortunate tyre pressure penalty, he’d have a podium to his credit after surviving the madness of the Jerez sprint to finish third.
Joan Mir looked at one point as if he would be calling time on his MotoGP career rather than re-sign with Honda for 2025. A best of 12th is nothing the 2020 world champion will be happy about. While adapting from a Ducati to a Honda is no easy task, Johann Zarco is proving more is possible from that switch than Marini is.
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