Jo🐟rge Lorenzo believes MotoGP fans still want to see rider rivalries - but only if they are natura💖l.

Today’s MotoGP may fe🅰ature inten♉se racing but lacks the fiery relationship between riders that Lorenzo experienced with Valentino Rossi and co.

“I am a great defender ofꦡ thes🍬e rivalries,” Lorenzo told .

“ꦐThese duels keep the spectator wanting more, wanting to see the races a꧙nd the entire weekend.

“It happened with Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna in Formula 1ꦡ, it happened with Alex Criville and Mick Doohan in this championship and it is experienced with Barcelona and Real Madrid in football.

“It has happened to me with Valentino Rossi, with Marc Marquez, wꦉith Dani Pedrosa…

“People don't want to see the riders hate each other, but they do want to see a very strꦺong rivalry.

“But it has to come out naturally.

“The riders have to follow their personalit💝y𓆏 and their way of being.

“So, if it doesn't work for today's riders, it doesn't w⭕ork for them.”

Lorenzo’s feud with Rossi was defined by the prese🉐nce of a wall which separated the Yamaha garage that they shared.

But their genera💦tion has been replaced - and Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta believes the current crop are the best ever.

Two-time MotoGP champion Lorenzo reacted: “The sport evolves and there is more technolo🃏gy so that riders are increasingly prepared o🀅n a physical level. That's true.

“At the level of talent, ambition or wanting♌ to be that 'killer' that we had, leaving aside Marc Marquez or Pedro Acosta, who do have that instinct of always wanting to win, the current drivers possibly do not have it.

“On an equal🐬 level, it is the grid with the best and most ▨winning motorcycles in history.

“In terms 🧔of talent, personality and ambition, I think not. Weౠ were a very, very strong generation.”

Rookie Pedro Acosta has made an impact in MotoGP♍ already, insisting “I am not here to make friends”.

Lorenzo said about the teenager: “He is a young, ꦉtalented and ambitious driver; a 'killer'.

“He is hungry. He himself believes that he🐬 deseജrves to win and wants to be the best.

“This is the difference between champions and🙈 great riders.”

Loren𓆉zo assessed how this season’s championship fight will play out.

“I expect🎉 a very strong Ducati with its 'fantastic four': Pecco Bagnaia, Jorge Ma🧔rtin, Marc Marquez and Enea Bastianini.

“The KTM are very good. It is a very nervous motorcycle, but very agꦏile. Brad Binder is going to be there.

“Of course, we'll see if he controls his nerves and doesn't make mis𝐆takes that cost him points.

“Pedro Acosta, sooner or later, will arrive. Als⭕o, Aleix Espargaro with Aprilia.

“I find him very solid and, as he has said, the bike works wonderfully. Let's see if Aleix is ​​fine throughout the 🌠championship without making those mistakes that surely co🎃st him the title in 2022.”