Chicho Lorenzo is as virulent on social networks as his son Jorge. A singularity in this family from Majorca which has left its mark on the world of Grands Prix. Today, the father delivers his analyzes of the industry on a You Tube channel, and he doesn't bother with embellishments. This time, it’s the Yamaha factory that took the fight…
Yamaha won this year Sept of fourteen Grand Prix of the season calendar MotoGP. A good result, but only a priori because Iwata's groups were far from hegemony. Their latest generation M1 proved to be versatile, ultimately being outdone by the previous version with a Franco Morbidelli above and vice-world champion. Three victories were signed by the Italian-Brazilian, and like three others fell into the bag of Fabio Quartararo, it is clear that the factory team only won one. Which gives a clear score of six to one against its satellite team.
A situation that boy lorenzo judged to be unacceptable. So much so that in his section, Yamaha having a bad time..." In the last three years, the factory team has won four races ».
Chicho Lorenzo: “Yamaha needs new blood”
He pursues : " this year the same factory team won one race, the satellite team won six with two drivers like Quartararo and Morbidelli without much experience. It is not possible that a satellite team with significantly less equipment, experience and support from the Yamaha factory would have won more than the factory team ».
This established, comes the rest on Motoracing... " I spent nine years in the Yamaha booth. Yamaha's most important job throughout the year is to justify the poor results in front of the Japanese. How easy it would have been to take the entire satellite team, everyone who got six wins, and transfer them to the factory box... This year, Yamaha made a fool of itself with the factory team. At Yamaha they need new blood, new people with ideas and a desire to succeed ». Lynn Jarvis and others are thus pilloried…
