The 2023 MotoGP season has been litter꧒ed with crashes an🀅d injuries, with the new format of sprint races introducing an extra layer of chaos.

ꦦBut three-time premier class champion Lorenzo also sees problems with the aerodynamics♔.

“Iဣ like the sprint but I speak as🐻 a spectator,” he told . “I understand the riders, the risk doubles or triples.

“The bikes are strong with the aerodynamics. I am worried about the health o𓆉f the ride๊rs. But as a spectator, I like it.

“We’re getting to a point 𝕴where MotoGP bikes are really scary.

“They have 300hp and go over 370km🐻/h. If we don’t [pause], in a few years they will hit 400km/h.

“I think☂ we have to limit the power of these bikes in some way.

“I would lim✱it the aerodynamics as much as possible, maybe I🍸 would eliminate it.”

Fellow legend♔ Casey Stoner recently told : “You’ve got to take the manufacturers’ perspective, but 🍰what they’re not doing right now is taking in the riders’ perspective.

“The show, th🅺e 🐻danger, the more accidents we’re seeing these days? It’s ridiculous.

“Winglets, gone. Ride height devices, gone. Anti-wheelie, gone. Tr🐈action control cut to a safety level and nothing more. Half this shit needs to go.”

‘Honda and Yamaha lacked a test rider’

Lorenzo retired from MotoGP in 2019 after an injury-ravaged year at Honda before briefly rejoining Yamaha, the team where he🅺 won all three of his championships, as a test rider.

That role was limited by the pandemic, then de▨scended into a row with his replacement Cal Crutchlow.

“Honda and Yamaha didn’t have a really sensitive rider to develop a bike that was rideable fo🍒r everyone,” Lorenzo said.

“At Honda, they listened to me at the time. I had been to Japan to do some work 🤪and modifications on the bike. But I had the misfortune to crash and hurt myself at Assen.

“Without that crash, I would have continued at Honda 🌄and with a better bi🐭ke suited to my characteristics.

“The turꦺning point😼 was the crash at Assen, that changed my mentality.

“I began to appreciate other things in liꦆfe. That fall took three or four years off my career.”

Lorenzo spent two seasons at Ducati, one of many big-name rid༺ers who 🏅failed to end the championship hoodoo that stretched back to 2007 until Francesco Bagnaia finally won last year.

“It’s not something you do overnight,” Lorenzo said about Ducati’s current do🌟minance.

“You need to sta𝕴y calm, to understand what to keep on the bike and𒆙 what to change.

“Gigi Dall’Ign🌌a has done a great job since 2014. Slowly he made Ducati the best bike, but it was a long job.

“It’s the era of the European brands in MotoGP, not the Japanese. I don’t know how long this will ꦡlast.”