Johann Zarco feels a difficult start to Ti✱to Rabat's MotoGP career, combined with the limited testing available made it harder for the Spaniard to fully adapt to the premier-class.

After being Moto2 rivals and world champi⛦ons during 2012-2015, Zarco eventually be🅰came Rabat's MotoGP team-mate at Avintia Ducati this season.

While the Frenchman went on to secure the team's first pole🌞 position and podium, clearing the way for a Pramac Ducati move and upgraded machinery for 2021, Rabat scored a best finish of eleventh and is leaving MotoGP to make way for Lucaജ Marini.

It's now been officially ℱconfirmed that the Spaniard will make a fresh 💎start in the World Superbike championship next season, riding for Barni Ducati.

With a best result of seventh to show for his five MotoGP seasons - two at Marc VDS Honda then three at Avintia Ducati, but missing half o🦋f 2018 due to serious leg injuries - it's easy to forget Rabat's formidable Moto2 form.

His title-winning 2014 campaign produced 14 podiums (including seven wins) from 18 rounds, to comfortably beat the likes of former/future MotoGP riders Mi🐻ka Kallio, Maverick Vinales, Thomas Luthi and Zarco.

An attempt to become Moto2's first-ever double cham♕pion the following seas𝕴on saw Rabat lose out to Zarco and another future MotoGP star, Alex Rins.

However, Rabat – who𓄧 broke his collarbone and then wrist during separate training accidents - still took three more victories (and ten podiums) before joining the premier-class with Marc VDS in 2016🐠.

"For Tito, the overall memories are the Motꦅo2 years where he was pretty strong, winning the title, and then fighting with him for his second title when I got my first," said Zarco, who went on to become Moto2's only double champion to date in 2015-2016.

"It's a pity that in MotoGP he didn't find the o✱pportunity to really adapt well.𝔍"

Both Rabat and Zarco waited a long time to become a world chamꦐpion, Zarco finally succeeding in his seventh Grand Prix season and Rabat his ninth.

While Zarco has remained largely competitive, barring the KTM kerfuffle, Rabat suffered a difficult deb❀ut MotoGP season and has hovered between 19th and 22nd in the championship standings ever since.

Zarco believes the uncompetit😼ive nature of the 2016 satellite Honda (team-mate Jack Miller had a best dry result of tenth) made it more 'complicated' for Rabat to understand how a MotoGP machine needed to be ridden and he may have lost his way.

"Maybe he started in MotoGP with no📖t a very competitive bike, at the beginning it was the [satellite] Honda, so it doesn’t help you to understand if you are doing good or not," Zarco exp🌊lained. "I think this was complicated for him."

Part of Rabat's Moto2 success was also attributed to a relentless training schedule on a similar 600cc bike around Almeria, but the unique nature of a MotoGP prototype meant nothing could prepare him for the p🅘remier-class.

"He's a totally passionate guy, fully motivated. He's the one riding moto🔥rbikes the most, but this MotoGP category for his style he could not adapt well becaus🌊e he needs to ride a lot to adapt," Zarco said.

"Unfortunately, with the MotoGP bike we can't ride that much and if you don't get it [how to adapt to MotoGP] quickly then you struggle and I think this has been his situation fﷺor many years."

The switch to WorldSBK means Rabat will once again have the opportunity to carve his 🌌own groove around practice tracks during training, this time on a Panigale road bike.