Jorge Lorenzo on “the one thing” that separates Marc Marquez from great rivals like Valentino Rossi
Marquez goes into the 2023 MotoGP season 🦂knowiꦍng that another championship would equal Rossi’s seven.
The rivalry in the era that included Ross♈i and Lorenzo has been reopened by Marquez’s Amaz🃏on Prime Video documentary where he charts the most notorious moments.
Lorenzo said on Spanish TV: “Who is the best rider? I competed against great stars: 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Casey Stoner, Rossi, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Dani Pedrosa, Marquez.
“For me, from the MotoGP class, since before it was the 500cc two-stroke class, I tꩲhink the five of us were the best.
“Rossi was super-smart, he could improvise very well in every situation during the race. Beating him one on on𝔍e was very difficult.
“But Marquez has one thing that the oth💧ers don't: he's not afraid of crashing... and hitting someone like that is hard.
“But for me,ღ Marc Marquez is still the best despite his injuries and the Honda being uncompetitive♛.”
A two-year injury nightmare seems to bജe coming to an end, meaning Marquez’s gr🥃eatest hurdle in 2023 could be the performance of his Repsol Honda bike in a quest to overthrow the dominant Ducatis and end Francesco Bagnaia’s title reign.
Three-time champion Lorenzo also opened up about his o♚wn fears, and how they grew with age: “In 99% of the time of my caree♛r as a rider I wasn't afraid.
“On two or three occasions I was afraid to continue competing, but over time I overcame💞 it and returned to the tracks, winning races and world championไships.
“In the last years of competition - at 28, 30, 32 years old - I was equally fast, or eve💜n more, i🅺n dry and safe conditions.
“But when I had to go with dry tyres in mixed conditions, with puddles of water, whiꩲch a🅠re the most dangerous conditions in which at any moment you fly off and get injured, at 30 or 32 years I wanted to be fast, full throttle.
“In the races I lost a lot of points - I was 14th, 15th, 16th🌱. When I was 20 I won the race.”
James💎 was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade๊ covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
