Once again leader of the championship since Le Mans, Jorge Lorenzo only owes Andrea Iannone the fact of being overtaken by Marc Marquez in Catalonia, even if he seemed to be in difficulty following a lack of confidence in his tire Before.
The Majorcan driver has already experienced difficult times on the Assen circuit, and we obviously remember his heroic race after an express return trip to Barcelona to have a broken collarbone consolidated during testing in 2013.
This year, even if the weather is still uncertain during this meeting, the #99 will have an M1 that is all the more competitive on this track as it will have a choice of two frames; enough to break a certain curse on this circuit where Jorge Lorenzo has not won since 2010, being taken out by other drivers in 2011 and 2012, finishing 5th despite the pain in 2013, dropping to 13th in 2014 after his change of bike , and finishing 3rd last year after having his worst qualification of the year; 8th.
Jorge Lorenzo, 2e, 115 points: “C’était
vraiment dommage, pour Barcelone. Je savais que cela allait être
une course difficile, en particulier après avoir senti que les
pneus se dégradaient après 5 ou 6 tours, puis il y a eu le crash
qui a tout ruiné.
We must now forget the incident and try to fight again in Assen. Running in Holland is always kind of a feeling bittersweet. C’est une piste que j’adore,
mais d’un autre côté, j’y ai connu à la fois des bons et des
mauvais résultats. Le tracé est toujours bon pour nos YZR-M1 donc
nous sommes prêts pour refaire une tentative d’obtenir à nouveau un
bon résultat. Je suis impatient de courir là-bas!”
