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  "textContent": "By The Numbers: Who Really Deserves To Win Rookie Of The Year?\n\nI have long believed that MotoGP should open up more of its honours and awards to a media-and-paddock vote rather than decide them in other ways. There should be a vote for Hall of Fame induction (is Andrea Dovizioso a Hall of Famer?); there should be a vote for ‘cleanest rider’; and there should certainly be a vote for rookie of the year.\n\nThis is not a belief held out of egoism - I am probably not often enough in the paddock to be any sort of vote-eligible anyway. But deciding rookie of the year by the points standings, though it sometimes drums up some extra intrigue for the final couple of rounds, is inadequate - as this season will likely expose.\n\nDiogo Moreira should by all rights outscore Toprak Razgatlioglu this season, barring some points-skewing rain-race extravaganzas. Moreira has the fourth-best bike in MotoGP, Razgatlioglu has the fifth-best - but the gap between Razgatlioglu’s still-undercooked V4-engined Yamaha and Moreira’s unspectacular-but-refined Honda is probably around the same at best as the gap between the Honda and the class-leading Aprilia.\n\nMoreira should, by rights, score points in every round. Razgatlioglu should score in none.\n\nValentin Khorounzhiy Wed, 13/May/2026 - 09:00\n\n  * Read more about By The Numbers: Who Really Deserves To Win Rookie Of The Year?\n  * 1 comment\n  *   * Log in or register to post comments\n\n",
  "title": "By The Numbers: Who Really Deserves To Win Rookie Of The Year?"
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