Bradley Smith is philosophical about his best MotoGP season coinciding with a lack of factory opportunities. Rides at the five official teams are all locked down until the end of 2016 with Smith, who capped his fifth in the world championship and top satellite status with a career best second last time at Misano, signing a one-year extension at Monster Yamaha Tech 3. “It's tough for us satellite guys to be up there on the podium every weekend, but it's nice when it does happen and certainly it gives me more points to fight for fifth in the championship,” Smith said at Aragon on Thursday. “To be honest I didn't expect to be in this [fifth] position. With nine or ten races to go I was...
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