The three-time race winner and 2020 championship runner-up endured a torrid campaign last year, in which he scored just one podium as he struggled for pace in the first half of the season on his two-year-old Yamaha in Petronas SRT colours.
He was forced out from June’s Dutch TT through to September’s San Marino Grand Prix as he recovered from surgery on a knee injury, by which time he’d been promoted to the factory Yamaha squad on a two-year deal to replace the ousted Maverick Vinales.
Scoring just seven points in the final five races as a factory Yamaha rider in 2021, Meregalli believes Morbidelli’s return was “too early” – but knows the Italian “matches very well” to the M1.
“What I’m expecting from Franco is a kind of revenge after last season, because he had too many things [go wrong],” Meregalli said.
“He started quite well, then he was injured, he decided to have surgery and then he moved to the factory team.
“Probably he wanted to jump back on…
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