Before he was able to return to his apartment in Lugano, which was no small feat in this period of confinement, border closures, and civil aviation grounded, Jorge Lorenzo vegetated for long weeks. in a posh hotel in Dubai. For fear of the coronavirus, less virulent in these latitudes? Nope. He was actually trapped by Yamaha… Maio Meregalli explains.
Jorge Lorenzo in a room of a large hotel Dubai has long been the backdrop to his interventions on the web. The Majorcan was certainly isolated, but always open to the world thanks to the magic of the web. A position that is both enviable, due to the luxury and physical training opportunities offered by the site, but also anxiety-provoking because it is nonetheless precarious... The said establishment was in fact under permanent threat of closure by the authorities, like all the others places of this type in the world, due to the pandemic.
But how and why did Por Fuera end up in this place? Mayo Meregalli from home Yamaha , explain : " we had to cancel some tests. We tried to keep Jorge in Dubai, just because we had to do a test in Motegi on April 20-21. But unfortunately we had to cancel it. Like everyone else, we are losing a lot of time due to the situation with Covid-19. »
Jorge Lorenzo therefore paid the price of a fine professional conscience, the very one whose Yamaha hopes to get the most out of it: “the experience he brings to us is important for us, because he comes from Honda and he was before at Ducati, he knows more than us about what they have,” confirms Massimo Meregalli, the Yamaha team principal in an interview with Motorsport – Total.com.
