The Spanish Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha YZR M 1) showed in the MotoGP Grand Prix of Qatar what his strength is for this season, practically the same as in the second part of last season, but in Losail he opened a new front with his teammate, the Italian Valentino Rossi, with a cross of statements to which more excited.
Lorenzo already achieved the best time of practice and although Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda RC 213 V) showed a very good rhythm during them, the truth is that later in the race the world champion in title knew how to propose the correct strategy with all his rivals , knowing that the speed of the Ducati could embitter his first victory of the year.
Lorenzo let the Ducati riders do it and one was discarded “alone”, Andrea Iannone, due to a fall when riding too hard, and the other because he could not hold the pace of the Spaniard, who knew how to wait for the right moment to overcome it and then score a A faster pace than his in the area that he did best, the fourth quarter, to open a gap that no one could fill.
Lorenzo’s victory was unappealable, but off the track the news of the renewal of Valentino Rossi made the reigning champion feel like a “burning horn”, who assured that “in reality it is the only thing he could do”, due to age and reason. that had happened previously in other brands such as Honda or Ducati.
Rossi, who does not shy away from combat when it comes to speaking, did not “cut himself off” by assuring that, if the brand that Lorenzo talks about has an offer, it is necessary “to have the guts to go to Ducati, that’s why he will not leave” assured the Italian on Saturday night.
Of course Valentino Rossi knows how to handle such situations like no one else, by provoking his rival and teammate in the most direct way possible and, although Lorenzo surely did not like the Italian’s statements at all, after the Qatar race he preferred not go into the rag and ensure that he prefers to speak on the court and this time he did it loud and clear.
The Moto2 race was a real chaos because of the traffic light, which did not work properly and forced the error of eight riders, although only six were penalized with a passage through the workshop street at the beginning of the race and the last two almost at the end of the race with twenty seconds, which actually benefited them and didn’t feel too good.
The Swiss Thmas Luthi won, a classic at the top of the podium in Losail and surely throughout the season, although he will not be the one who is most likely to aspire to the world title against the youth of Alex Rins, penalized at the start, Sam Lowes , to whom the change of motorcycle from Speed Up to Kalex, or Franco Morbidelli, to name a few, has been very good.
The Italian Niccolo Antonelli beat Brad Binder by just seven thousandths of a second, but they and many of those who ended up stuck in his wake will be, with all certainty, the protagonists of one of the most even seasons in the smallest of the categories and in which at least Jorge Navarro should successfully defend the Spanish representation and his first victory in the World Cup. EFE
Lorenzo shows his strength and opens a new fight with Rossi
