Last year's MotoGP top-two of🌞 Joan Mir and Franco Morbidelli head Jack Miller's list of riders to b🎉eat heading into the 2021 season, albeit in reverse order.

While Mir took a debut 🔜;win on the way to delivering Suzuki's first MotoGP title since 2000, Morbi🌄delli had the stronger end to last year.

The Italian, riding the lower A-Spec Yamaha fo🍸r the Petronas team, swept to three victories and was the highest scoring rider over the final five rounds.

That included a thrilling showdown with Miller at Valencia, where Morbidelli wrestled victory from the Australian on the final lap. Miller then got his revenge b✱y edging out the Italian for se🐻cond at the Portimao finale, his last ride for Pramac before moving to the Factory Ducati team.

While Mir and Morbidelli have th🌳e stability of remaining with the same teams for 2021, Suzuki has been rocked by the departure of experienced team manager Davide Brivio (to F1) while Morbidelli is again the only Yamaha rider without the latest Factory-Spec M1.

"Joan? For sure. He’s got the #1 from last year," replied Miller, whe🧸n asked if Mir was the man to 🐲beat. "Nobody expected him last year either, but he did it and I don’t think we can discount him or Suzuki. They are doing a fantastic job.

"The biggest question mark f🐭or them 💮will be Brivio leaving. How they will overcome this hurdle, which came late.

"I think the strongest rival, if we look at the back 🎃half of last year, would definitely have to be Frankie at his point, in my opinion. But the only question mark I have on him is he’s on quite an old machine, w🌠ithout any updates. So that's a very strange one for me.

"But for sure you can’t discount the guys like Fabiꦰo [Quartararo] and Maverick [Vinales] either. The list can go on, the whole grid is so strong now. It's incredible. We just have to bring our A game and do the best that we can."

One rider not present on the full-time 2021 grid is Miller's good friend Cal Crutchlow, although🌌 the triple MotoGP race winner could yet make a wild-card appearance alongside his new Yamaha test riding role.

"About Crutchlow… I won’t miss nothing!" s൩miled Miller. "No, we all miss him but we have a great group chat between🌸 myself, Alex and Sam Lowes and Cal.

"He keeps giving u💙s updates from the building si💫te. I think he’s a builder now!"