When Jorge Lorenzo joined MotoGP with Yamaha in 2008, it was as team-mat🍰e to five-time champion Valentino Rossi 'in the peak of his car𓂃eer'.

Fast forward t♒o 2019 and Lorenzo finds himself joining Repsol Honda as team-mate to reigning five-time champion Marc Marquez.

It's a similarity t🐻hat has not been lost on Lorenzo.

"During my careerಞ in MotoGP I've shared a pit box with four riders; Valentino fi🌺rst, then Spies, then Dovi and now Marc," he said.

"The situation now is quite similar to the when I 🔯started in MotoGP in 2008, because at that time Valentino was in𒁃 the peak of his career.

"He didn’t win [the title] in 2006 and 2007 but he was fighti🌟ng for the title and he knew the [Yamaha🏅] a lot.

"So it is more or less the same 💎situation t𓃲hat I have now.

"I have come here to a new team wit🔯h Marc who is a very, very strong team-mate. A world champion who knows a lot about the [Honda]."

Rossi had been ♏at Yamaha for four seasons when Lore﷽nzo arrived, while Marquez has spent his entire six-year MotoGP career with Honda.

Lorenzo won his first MotoGP title as team-mate to Rossi in 2010, took a sec𒁏ond alongside Spies in 2012 and third as team-mate to Rossi again in 2015.

That 2015 crown is also the only♒ time Marquez has lost a MotoGP t📖itle.

The Spaniard 🥂described younger countryman Marquez as having a 'phenomenal' partnership with the RC213V and says he has a lot to learn from the #93.

"Now it is very difficult to adapt in MotoGP as the bikes are very complicated, as I found out with the Ducati. So it is ജnot simple [to change bikes] but my adaption with the Honda, even if it wasn’t feeling [perfectly] right, was going quiteಌ well in Valencia and Jerez.

"For sure in that area Marc has an advantage. I’d say he is phenomenal, and I have a𝓀 lot of things to learn from him. So I come into the team with a lot of happiness and proudness but also a lot of humility to try, little by little, to understand everything and get resultꦰs.

"Let’s see how it goes."

The triple MotoGP champion underwent surgery on Monday for a broken scaphoid bone in his left wrist, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:following an 'unlucky'168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: dirt-track training accident, an injury that will rule him out ꧒of the forthcoming Sepang test.

"In Valencia, it was all about body position and trying to do as many laps as possible while knowing I wasn’t fit. Then in J🍌erez, we started testing new parts, especially on the second day, so we coulꦑd see some new little parts that were better than the previous ones," Lorenzo said of his two Honda outings so far.

𓆏"In Sepang, there will probably be even more new pieces to test, but I will not be able to test. Anyway, I will do it at the [last] te𓃲st in Qatar."

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While it's a big blow to miss the three-days in Malaysia, L♍orenzo knows 'it could be worse'.

"More or less I will have the saꦰme number of tests (three) as when I wen🌱t from Yamaha to Ducati, so it could be worse," said Lorenzo, who was denied an additional test for Ducati while still under contract to Yamaha.

"It could al🤪so✃ be worse as in [the injury] could happen during the middle of the championship or missing four races in a row."

Lorenzo, who took ꦜ44 victories for Yamaha and then three for Ducati, missed four races near the end of last season when he suffered damage to the radius bone of the same left wrist in Thailand.