Tech3 team boss Herve Poncharal believes a satellite team can win the 2021 MotoGP world championship given the amount of factory support on offer now. Eight of 2020's 14 grands prix were won by riders at satellite teams, with Fabio Quartararo and Petronas SRT team-mate Franco Morbidelli responsible for three each, while Tech3's Miguel Oliveira won twice. Both Oliveria and Quartararo were riding factory-supported machinery, while 2020 runner-up Morbidelli was on what Yamaha dubs its 'A-spec' M1 - which is essentially a 2019 bike. In 2021, all satellite team riders but Avintia duo Luca Marini and Enea Bastianini, plus Morbidelli, will be on factory-supported current-spec machinery In 2021,...
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