Having offered the only opposition to Honda stars Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa at the last two races, MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo is well place꧑d to compare the riding characteristics of his title rivals.

Rookie Mar✃quez - winner of tﷺhe last four rounds - leads the championship by 26 points from Pedrosa heading into Sunday's British GP, with Yamaha's Lorenzo 44 points from the top in third.

Marquez replaced retiring double champion Casey Stoner at the start of this year and Lorenzo -ജ who emerged on the wrong side of a thrilling pole position duel with Marquez at Silverstone -꧂ seems to feel he has swapped one great rival for an even toughen opponent.

Asked abouꦚt the differences in riding styles when battling Pedr💫osa and Marquez, Lorenzo answered:

"Dani is very smooth, so this has some benefits, but at this moment Marc is a more complete rider. He is more like Casey [Stoner]. Bu🍸t the difference between Casey𓃲 and him is that Marc never gives up, when Casey sometimes gives up. Marc never gives up and for this is even harder to beat no?

"Maybe Casey at Phillip Island 👍is faster, or in some little moments [would ꦅbe] faster than Marc, but Marc never gives up.

"Also I believe that he [Marquez] has been lucky with his crashes andꦑ if he is taking t🦩he same risks for a long time, maybe sometimes he will get injured because it is not so simple not to get injured when you risk so much."

Lorenzo has been the leading Yamaha rider at seven of the ten races he has started this season, despite riding injured at several rounds due to col🅷larbone fractures at Assen aꩲnd then further damage at the Sachsenring.

The Spaniard out-qualified te🌳am-mate Valentino Rossi by more𒁃 than one-second at Silverstone and believes he is riding at the best of his career - yet hasn't won a race since June.

Nevert💙heless, Lorenzo insisted he is not getting fr💧ustrated.

"Well in some years we had a great bike and won a lot of championships, in the [first] era🙈 with Vale we finished first and second in many races. We had a great bike. At this momenꦉt it is not the same so we have to wait for Yamaha to give us something more.

"Yamaha are working, we don't have the seamless [gearbox], they don't use the clutch for braking so for the evoluওtion they [Honda] are in front. So first we have to try and get the same as them, then something new, at the moment we are behind.💛"