Last weekend, Formula 1 held the news of motor sports in a Russian Grand Prix, the outcome of which was decided by team instructions. Thus, if Lewis Hamilton triumphed on the Sochi track, it is because the Mercedes team asked his teammate Valtteri Bottas to give him a clear place. Sport has not grown from it, but so has politics. A scene that a certain Jorge Lorenzo lived in front of his TV. And what do you think he thought of it?
Put on the grill on his social network, the Majorcan responded on the same airwaves: " I think they were right. The team is always more important than the drivers and we have to take care of our team. We are here to winr“. A sentence that we will remember for 2019, when he will be in a duel with Marc Marquez within the Honda team.
But it is also a point of view that we can discuss by remembering a 2017 Valencia Grand Prix during which Por Fuera superbly ignored the instructions from the Ducati box which presented him with the message code “mapping8”. Which meant to him to let a Dovizioso playing the title and the next one very closely.
We know how the affair ended and we will remember what Lorenzo said at the time: “ In the middle of the race, when Andrea followed me closely, I analyzed the situation and thought it was better to try to keep him behind to reach the leading group. If we had managed to reach Zarco and Pedrosa, I surely would have let him pass "
An explanation that Dovizioso then did not validate: » in Malaysia it was clear he just wanted to win. If he had won in front of me, it would have been a disaster. But that wasn't his problem. Valencia was confirmation that he was doing what he wanted "
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