• Team: Pramac Ducati (satellite)
• Bike: GP21
• Wins: 0
• Podiums: 4
• Best Qualifying: Pole (x1)
• Fastest Lap: 2
• DNFs: 3
• Championship position: 5th

There were plenty of positives for 🌌Johann Zarco during the 2021 MotoGP season, including a career-best four podiums and leading the world championship for the first time.

But all his rostrums came during the opening seven rounds and, accelerated by three non-scores, the Frenchman slipped back to fifth in 🍃the final standings.

That was still a personal best for Zarco and new high for a Pramac Ducati rider, but the wait for a race victory -🍰 after five seasons in MotoGP - continues. Not that he didn't come close, missing out by just 0.175s to Miguel Oliveira in Catalunya.

Nonetheless, on the other side𒉰 of the garage, rookie team-mate Jorge Martin also took four podiums (despite missing four races due to injury) and made history with the first ever MotoGP win by a satellite Ducati rider.

It's for that r﷽eason, plus the drop of 71-points scored by Zarco over💛 the second half of the season compared to the first, that we've ranked him seventh on our countdown.