Blaž Štremfelj
Racer Petronas Yamaha will be after the last championship race MotoGP, in which he recorded his first victory, passed to premiere performance at the World Rally Championship.
Morbidelli will race with Hyundai race car i20 R5, whom he got to know more closely in June at a promotional event in Tuscany, where he sat in the passenger seat next to the star WRC Denmark Sorda.
"I'm excited about the opportunity to take part in the WRC World Rally." said Morbidelli. "It will be a great opportunity to compete with the best racers in the world and try my hand at a different sport."
“The experience will be fun, although I will have to learn a lot of details quickly and it will not be easy to adapt to riding two or four wheels in such a short time. You don't get that opportunity often in life, ” added the Italian, who will be briefly instructed by a teammate Umberto Scandola.
