Jorge Lorenzo on “the one thing” that separates Marc Marquez from great rivals like Valentino Rossi
Marquez goes into the 2023 MotoGP season knowing that ﷺanother championship would equal Rossi’s seven.
The rivalry in the era that included Rossꦅi and Lorenzo has been reopened by 💟Marquez’s Amazon 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.
“For me, from the MotoGP꧒ class, since before it was the 500cc two-stroke class, I think the five of us were the best.
“Rossi was s♏uper-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 afrai෴d of crashing... 𒅌and hitting someone like that is hard.
“But for me, Marc Marquez is still the be🎃st despite his injuries and the Honda being uncompetitive.”
A two-year injury nightmare seems to be coming to an end, meaning Marquez’s greates🔴t hurdle in 2023 could be the performance of his Repsol Honda biౠke 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 the🔯y grew with age: “In 99% of the time of my career as a rider I wasn't afraid.
“On two or three occasions I was afrai📖d to continue competing, but over time I overcame ✱it and returned to the tracks, winning races and world championships.
“In the last years of cꦅompetition - 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🎉 tyre🌺s 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 po♎ints - I was 14th, 15th, 16th. When I was 20 I won the race.”
James ⛦was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
