Qatar GP – Lorenzo (retirement): "I fell because of the front brake"
Bad start to the season for the Ducati official: while his teammate wins the Qatar GP, Jorge Lorenzo falls in the 13th lap and will arrive in Argentina with a zero counter… Debriefing.
Jorge Lorenzo, Ducati (9th in qualifying and retirement in the race) : "It was not one of the best weekends for me", regrets n ° 99. "I had a lot of problems and my fall was related to a problem with the front brake. From the second lap I realized something was wrong and I tried to deal with the situation, but it only helped. ‘got worse. I thought it was an overheating issue, but as I was about to catch up with Iannone I couldn’t slow down and had to fall to avoid more serious damage. ".
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"Now we have to understand what exactly happened, so that the same problem does not happen again. It’s a shame because I was running in good lap times (1’55.908 in his 12th lap, editor’s note) and I think I could have got closer to the leading group ".
Site analysis : In fact, Jorge Lorenzo took longer than the leading group to get his lap times. While Crutchlow and Dovizioso reached 1’55 from the second lap – imitated a lap later by Zarco, Marquez and Rossi – the Mallorcan stayed in 1’56 during the first four laps before dropping to 1’55.901 in the fifth, with a better time still insufficient in eighth (1’55.767).
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Visibly in delicacy with his front brake from the start of hostilities, Lorenzo was already in tenth position 3.6 seconds behind the leader just before his fall….
However, he could legitimately envisage a "comeback" à la Viñales, insofar as the official Yamaha – who was then two places later in the 12th lap, turning almost a second slower than him – finally finished sixth…
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