Franco Morbidelli is 'thankful' for the revised 2020 MotoGP calendar released last week, but admits it's a bittꦅersweet feeling as an Italian.

"We have a 13 race calendar confirmed, with maybe♏ a total of 16 including Malaysia, for 2020!" said the Petronas Yamaha rider. ♉"Of course, it won’t be a normal calendar season but this is what’s possible at the moment, I think we just have to be thankful.

"We will miss the fans a lot and the normal GP weekend a💎tmosphere, but we understand that this is a provisional situation and soon we⭕ will be back to normal life.

🌟"To get there, we need to keep acting safely and responsibly. Dorna and IRT🍌A have been able to organise what seemed impossible, so now we must follow all their advice and avoid any last minute issues.

"It’s a really tight calendar with 13 races in 18 wee🌺ks, so no mistakes can be made and it will be really tough with almost no rest. It will also be interesting to s📖ee how everyone faces this challenge."

The bittersweet feel💦ing is due to the cancellation of the official Italian round at Mugello, but double-dose at Misano.

"As an Italian, I have a bittersweet calendar because we couldn’t race at Mugello - although I will be able to train there and every year we have to do some laps there as it’s so special for us - but we get to race at Misano twice. We rode there a lot recently with the Yamaha ꦯR1 so wꦗe have to take advantage of this!" Morbidelli said.

"It’🌱s really important to ha⛦ve a date on the horizon and work towards it, because you don’t know how difficult it is to prepare yourself for a non-confirmed target. I’m looking forward to seeing our team members in Spain and ride my #21 YZR-M1."

Morbidelli will be the only rider oꦚn an A-Spec M1 this season with team-mate Fabio Quartararo joining Mav🤡erick Vinales and Valentino Rossi on a factory-spec bike.

Quartararo is confi💧rmed as replacing Rossi for 2021 when The Doctor is tipped to join protegee Morbidelli at the Sepang team, although at present both Petronas seats are officially open.