Fresh from his successful season on two wheels, Franco Morbidelli isn’t q💫uite ready to put his feet up and look back on his three MotoGP victories as he prepares to swap to four wheel🔜s and the World Rally Championship this weekend.

Morbidelli will ♛line up in a Hyundai i20 R5 courtesy of WithU Motorsport, which partners both the rally outfit and the Italian’s ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚPetronas SRT Yamaha team. 

The outing comes after a ‘skills swap’ earℱlier in the year when Morbidelli got the chance to try his hand at a spot of off-road racing for the first time, prompting him to throw himself i💙nto the challenge of the Monza Rally.

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The Italian event is normally a contained short sprint rally regularly attracting stars from Mo🦹toGP and rallying - including Valentino Rossi - but has been expanded this year to double up as th𒀰e final round of the 2020 WRC series.

“I am electrified by the chance of taking part in a real round of the 🐻World Ra𓃲lly Championship,” said Morbidelli. “This is going to be an amazing chance to be among the best drivers in the world and compete in a different sport.

“This is g🍎oing to be good fun, though I will have to learn quickly a lot of details and it is not going to be easy to adapt to two added wheels in such a short time. These are chances that happen a few time🥃s over a lifetime. I will follow a crash course from Umberto Scandola to reach the first test as ready as possible.”

The Italian emerged as one of the standout perform💯ers on the Petronas SRT Yamaha this year, breaking his MotoGP victory duck at Misano before following it up wit🍌h two more well-judged successes at Aragon (Teruel) and in Valencia.

Landing him the runners-up spot overall and top Yamaha status, Morbidelli will continue with his B/A spec Yamaha M1 in 2021,♍ when he will be joined in the team by Rossi.