Luca Cadalora is a retired three-time World Champion. Now 57 years old, he has taken a step back from the MotoGP field, which he traveled as a valuable track coach to Valentino Rossi. An instructive and intense period from 2016 to 2018. The Italian therefore knows the Yamaha box very well, on which he has kept an eye. The latest events in pilot management have not left him indifferent. But rather than focusing on the generational change to come within the official team with the next Viñales–Quartararo duo, it was on the reunion between Rossi and Lorenzo that he focused his attention…
At Yamaha , we can never repeat it enough, we did well in managing the drivers. Iwata's men knew how to organize the handover between two generations of pilots, with the rise in power of Casa Particular in Viñales followed by Quarterly, while Red was treated as his rank dictated, with respect. Better still, they even managed to bring back the man who brought them three titles: Jorge Lorenzo. No to create chaos and pressure on the incumbents. But to help them, since here he is a test pilot.
Certainly, but since that moment, Por Fuera and the Doctor seem to get along like thieves. To the point that imagining them again as teammates under the colors of the Petronas satellite team is no longer science fiction. A situation that is astonishing Luca Cadalora : " I never imagined seeing them together like this, even if they have always respected each other in sport » says the Italian.
« But in life a lot of things change and when a driver is no longer your opponent, it is also easier to have a good relationship. It is also true that Jorge was afraid after the accident that almost cost him paralysis, but I've never seen a happier face than his when he got off the Yamaha during testing. So I think he has already forgotten everything »Adds Cadalora. The latter thus ends his confidences on Moto.it : " Valentino Rossi wants to continue racing in 2021. » Let's hope he's right!
