Jorge Lorenzo on “the one thing” that separates Marc Marquez from great rivals like Valentino Rossi
Marquez goes into the 2023 MotoGP s🍌eason knowing that another championsh𝓀ip would equal Rossi’s seven.
The rivalry in the era that included Rossi and Loren🌃zo has been reopened by Marquez’s Amazonꦓ Prime Video documentary where he charts the most notorious moments.
Lorenzo said on Spanish TV: “Who is the best rider? I competed against great stars: 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Casey Stoner, Rossi, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Dani Pedrosa, Marquez.
“ꦑFor me, from the MotoGP class, since before it was the 500cc two-stroke class, I think the five of us were the best.
“Rossi was super-smart, he could improvise very well in every situation during the🌳 race. Beating him one on one was very difficult.
“But Marquez has one thing that the others don't: he's not afraid of crashing... and hittౠing someone like that🌃 is hard.
“But for me, Marc Marquez is still the best despite his injuries and the H⛎onda being uncompetitiveꦡ.”
A two-year injury nightmare seems to be coming to an end, meaning Marquez’s greatest hurdle in 2023 could be the performance of his Rep👍sol Honda bike in a quest to overthrow the dominant Ducatis 🗹and end Francesco Bagnaia’s title reign.
Three-time champion Lorenzo also opened up about his own fears, and how they grew with age: “In 99% of 💯the time of my career as a rider I wasn't afraid.&nb൩sp;
“On two or three occasi▨ons I was afraid to continue competing, but over time I overcame it and returned to the tracks, winning race🍎s and world championships.
“In the last years of c𓄧ompetition - at 28, 30, 32 years old - I was equally fast, or even more, in dry and safe conditions.
“But when I had to go with dry tyres in mixed conditions, with puddles of water, which are the most dangerous conditions in which at any moment you fly off and get injured, at❀ 30 or 32 years I wanted to be fast, full throttle.
“In the races I lost a lot of points🍷 - I was 14th, 15th, 16th. When I was 20 I won th🀅e race.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a 🔴decade covering everything from Americ💦an sports, to football, to F1.
