The 2025 Qatar Grand Prix offered an intense spectacle, but it was the penalty imposed on Maverick Viñales, who was demoted from 2nd to 14th place due to a tire pressure issue, that caused quite a stir. In his YouTube analysis, Chicho Lorenzo praised the performance of Viñales and KTM, while denouncing a rule he considers absurd and destructive to the MotoGP experience.
The downgrading of Maverick Vinales au Qatar Grand Prix continues to make waves, and this time it's boy lorenzo, father of Jorge Lorenzo and always sharp analyst, who steps up to the plate. For him, the penalty imposed on the pilot KTM – demoted from 2nd to 14th place for failure to comply with minimum tire pressure – is nothing more than a regulatory aberration.
« All sports have rules, but this rule is, how to say, Machiavellian. Because it penalizes you after giving your allYou went out racing, you risked your life. And then someone who's never ridden a motorcycle in his life comes along and punishes you. " he says bitterly.
Chicho Lorenzo: “ Imagine if he had won... and the victory had been taken away from him »
For Chicho, the situation is all the more unfair because Casa Particular in Viñales had run a masterful race. Second behind Marc Marquez, he had offered to KTM a real ray of sunshine in a complicated start to the season. Imagine if he had won... and then the victory had been taken away from him. »
But the father of the former world champion doesn't stop there. He points to a general drift in modern MotoGP, which he believes is too concerned with image, the artificial "show," and not enough with the true essence of racing: the show lies in the surpassing, not in all the paraphernalia, the theater, the exterior sets. »
And to conclude with a sentence which sums up all his annoyance: “ this formula for generate spectacle off the track is bullshit. " On Maverick Vinales, Chicho remains divided. He recognizes the immense potential of the pilot, capable of the best as well as the worst: " he is not an ordinary pilot. He can shine like a genius, then disappear into the shadows. It always takes him a long time to come back. »
Lorenzo father here defends a vision of the MotoGP more raw, more human, where instinct and talent must take precedence over algorithms and sensors. And in this fight, Casa Particular in Viñales has become, in spite of himself, a symbol.
