Jorge Lorenzo believes MotoGP fans still want to see rider rivalrie๊s - but only if they are natural.

Today’s MotoGP may feature intense racing but lacks the fiery relationship between rid꧒ers that Lorenzo experienced with Valentino Rossi and co.

“I am a gr🍬eat defender o🐻f these rivalries,” Lorenzo told .

“These duels keep the spectator wanting more, wanting to see the races and the entire weekend💮.

“It happened with Alain Prost a💦nd Ayrton Senna in Formula 1, 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, with Dani Pedro♐sa…

“People don't wan🍌t to see the riders hate e༒ach other, but they do want to see a very strong rivalry.

“But it has to come out naturally.

“The riders have to follo🎃w their personality and their way of being.

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

Lorenzo’s feud with Rossi was defined by the presence of a wall which separated the Yamaha garage that they s🐻hared.

But their generation has been replaced - and Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta b☂elieಞves the current crop are the best ever.

Two-time MotoGP champi⛄on Lorenzo reacted: “The sport evolves and there is more technology so that riders are increasingly pre🦹pared on 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 win🧜ning motorcycles in history.

“In terms of talent, personality anܫd ambition, I think not. We were a very, very strong generation.”

Rookie Pedro Acosta ha꧙s made an i🍌mpact in MotoGP already, insisting “I am not here to make friends”.

Lorenzo said 🦂about the teenager: “He is a you♋ng, talented and ambitious driver; a 'killer'.

“He is hungr✤y. He himself believes that he deserves to win and wants to be the best.

“This is the difference between champion🉐s and great riders.”

Lorenzo assessed how this 🍸season’s championship fight will play out✱.

“I expect a very strong Ducati wi𒁃th its 'fantastic four': Pecco Bagnaia, Jorge Martin, Marc Marquez and Enea Bastianini.

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

“Of course, we'll see if he controls his nꦯerves and doesn't make mi🍌stakes that cost him points.

“Pedro Acosta, sooner or later, will arrive. Also🅘, 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 ܫthat surely cost him the title in 2022.”