Chicho Lorenzo looks back on what happened between Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez in 2015 in Malaysia: “this strategy is called revenge” he says. But he also looks back on the departure of Aragon in 2018 which ended Jorge Lorenzo's good series at Ducati...
boy lorenzo responds to MotoGP fans' responses every week and this time the topic is hot. The father of Jorge Lorenzo looks back at what happened at Sepang in 2015 between Valentino Rossi et Marc Marquez, openly siding with the champion of Tavullia. Remember that that season, to win the world title, his son was in the running. But with Aragon 2018, Jorge Lorenzo also had his share with Marc Marquez...
Marc's aggressiveness
Everyone remembers the events of 2015 in Malaysia, with a vitriolic press conference and an outcome marked by a sanction, condemning Valentino Rossi at the last line of the decisive race that followed in Valencia. For Chicho, the aggression of Marquez is the culmination of several more or less similar episodes. “ Marquez breaks all crash patterns with other drivers, even when he went to apologize in the rival's garage while making a face » he says, referring to the race at Rio Hondo in 2018. “ Although he doesn't need it because he has already established himself as a reference driver... there is always a lack of respect. For him, the important thing is to win at all costs, also using unsporting tricks if necessary ».
Sepang facts
The father of Jorge Lorenzo faces the six-time MotoGP champion hard: “ Marquez shows a hatred towards one's rivals which leads him to strategies like the one he did with Valentino Rossi in Malaysia 2015. He focused exclusively on destroying Valentino's race and title chances. This strategy was really revenge. » To support his thesis, he recalls the lap times of the protagonists of this GP.
« In the case of Valentino Rossi, his fast lap comes on the fourth lap. On the fifth lap he is 1,2 tenths slower, on the sixth he is a little faster but it is not his normal pace. And on the seventh, the crash lap is slower than almost three seconds. Then, once Marquez fell, Valentino's times were normal. Marquez also sets his best lap in the second, but from there his times are not normal... In conclusion, instead of racing, he focused on annoying Valentino ».
The departure from Aragon 2018
Another example to which boy lorenzo refers when analyzing the aggressiveness of Marquez on the track is the Aragon GP in 2018. At the start, it cuts the route of Jorge Lorenzo forcing him to fall with a broken ankle as a result. “ Marquez was not wrong, it was a very well measured maneuver for a driver who has a lot of precision during the race. And why is he so far out of line? Because he wants to ruin Lorenzo's outing. He did it because at that time he was the driver who put more pressure on himself with the results ».
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