In three weeks, at most, MotoGP will resume its off-season with its first laps of the year 2017 on the side of Sepang in Malaysia. We feel it on the pilots' social networks, they are impatient to find their mount. A sensitive period where inaction makes the minds of champions sensitive to the smallest detail. At Ducati, we boost morale Lorenzo in good shape by assuring him of a GP17 made especially for him.
This time, it's the sports director Paolo Ciabbati which went from his mobilizing verse around an expected new era among the reds. For the first time in its history, the official Borgo Panigale team will not reveal a champion as it did with Casey Stoner. But on the contrary he has attracted a size of which he must be worthy while the recruit must also live up to his reputation.
For the two destinies to meet, it will take a motorcycle capable of achieving the synthesis. Which is not easy with a Desmosedici known to be much less docile than its Japanese competitors. But Ciabatta rectifies on MotoGP.com : " Lorenzo has probably always ridden the same bike since he was in MotoGP, and it is time to discover something else. However, we know very well how he drives and the GP17 was designed based on that. ».
He pursues : " we will experience success with Jorge, we are convinced of it because a three-time World Champion like him knows how to fight for a championship. This time we will fight with him for the title ". He will therefore also have to put his all into it while what will go to Lorenzo can also only go to Dovizioso which only expects one thing: to show that it would be wrong to forget it too quickly.
