Franco Morbidelli has branded 2024 “a great year” f🏅or himself and believes he could have fought for fifth in the MotoGP standings without his pre-season concussion.

The Italian joined Pramac on a works-spec GP24 for last season, but had his preparations curtailed after suffering a concussion in a training incident in Portugal in the 🥂winter.

He missed all of testing as a resul📖t, while later revealing that he suffered from memory loss in the weeks after sustaining the injuryཧ.

Morbidelli was able to line up on the grid for the first round of 2024, ♒but struggled to adapt to the GP24 and didn’t score points until he was seventh 🥃at the French GP.

In the latter stages of the year Morbidelli became a regular top six contender and manag𝕴ed a sprint podium at the San Marino GP on his way to ninth in the standingꦫs - albeit 213 points behind the next GP24 of factory rider Enea Bastianini.

Without his injury w﷽oes, he believes he could have made it into the top five in the championship but no higher.

“🍸Iಞ think I could have fought for P5 in the championship,” he said.

“Not P4, not P3. But P5, ye๊ah, I could have fought for i𒈔t.

Reflecting on the year, Morbidelli 🐭added🐷: “Overall it was a great year for the team.

“It was a great year for me as well. I cam♏e b🌞ack to fight for top spots and I’m really close to top spots.

“And I’m looking fo🔯rward to making this last step to get there and catch wins and catch podiums as I would like to consistently.

“But overall it was a greaꩲt year for me and for ✅the team as well.

“We did a gr🎃eat comeback from the beginning of the year, from the past two years. So, it’s a positive༒ season.”

Morbidelli steps❀ away from the Pramac team for 2025 to race for mentor Valentino Rossi’s VR46 s🐻quad and will remain on the exact GP24 he finished the previous campaign on.