Jorge Lorenzo on Valentino Rossi: “I used media to make him feel inferior”

Lorenzo and Rossi were notoriously separated by a wall in the Yamaha garage that they shared - a symbol of an uneasy relationship as they battled for MotoGP dominance.
Rossi ended his career as a seven-time premier class champion, Lorenzo racked up three titles - the most infamous of which was in 2015, when Lorenzo took advantage of a controversial clash between Rossi and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez.
“I was looking for that rivalry, because having an enemy motivate⭕d me,” Lorenzo told DAZN about Rossi.
✃"Vale and I didn't fight on track in 2015. A꧅lthough the rivalry was felt.
“Sometimes I won, other times he won, but 🤪the competition was noticeable 🐻in the environment until the end.
“It was chewed up by the 🌳media. I said something, he did too, I replied...
“In the press it was said that we did not get along aꦏnd that we did not speak to each other."&nbs🎃p;
Lorenzo explained an incident where, ahead of the season-finale race in Valencia, he approached a journalist to reque♉st a specific question was asked to irritate Rossi.
"At the airport I told her that at the press conference she 👍had to ask me if Valentino deserved the title,” Lorenzo said.
“For me it would not have been deserved.✤ I wanted to put pressure on him to feel inferior.
“I also created that rivalry through the press."

Lorenzo also spoke about his rivalry with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Dani Pedrosa: "We were both Spaniards, I remember that in the Spanish press the🧜re were more than 250 peo▨ple talking about MotoGP.
“In 2003, when we crossed patꦚhs in the paddock, Dani didn't 👍even look at me, we didn't say goodbye, neither with him nor with Alberto (Puig).
“We went to Malaysia, he won the championship, in that race I finished third. And in that moment of euphoria between Alberto and Dani, we 𝄹talked to each other.
“Then came the race in Australia, and we never♏ spoke to each other again."

James was a sports jour🅷nalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.