Our 10th biggest motorsport story of 2016 takes us back to MotoGP, and when Jorge Lorenzo decided to leave the team he had spent his entire premier class career with, Yamaha, in favour of a move to Ducati. In many top-level motorsport categories, it seems the silly season starts earlier each year. But it’s hard to think of a silly season sillier than that of MotoGP this year, which was in full flow before the lights had even gone out at the very first race of the year in Qatar. The chain of events that eventually led to perhaps the most significant rider market move since Valentino Rossi left Honda for Yamaha in 2004 began just prior to the Qatar race, when Yamaha offered simultaneous...
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