British GP MotoGP – Lorenzo (5th): "I managed to manage the gas well and preserve the tires"

5th at the start, 5th at the finish of the GP of Great Britain MotoGP this weekend at Silverstone: Jorge Lorenzo (Ducati) ensures that his racing strategy more cautious than usual, without blows of brilliance, allows him to ” be even more optimistic for the San Marino GP. Statements and Analysis.

Jorge Lorenzo, Ducati (5th in qualifying and 5th in race) : "This time, I opted for a more classic start than usual and that may have complicated my progress in the first laps. But after a rather difficult weekend, during which we never really found the right pace, we must be happy because in the race I managed to manage the throttle well and preserve the tires. This way the rear tire remained constant throughout the race. It was not enough to catch up with the leading group but enough to close the gap and score the best result of the season in this area ".

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"I think that in Misano we can do even better. I congratulate Andrea who had a brilliant race, and showed that he mastered this type of race to perfection. His results speak for themselves: with four victories and head of the championship, the whole team can only be satisfied ".

5th on the starting grid, 5th under the checkered flag: Jorge Lorenzo spent most of the British GP in 6th position after being dropped by his teammate Andrea Dovizioso, who started 6th on his road to victory , then by Johann Zarco in the 14th lap when Marc Marquez freed up a place in the top 5 following his engine failure. The Mallorcan then returned to the French and was able to keep "his" fifth place during the last five laps..

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From an accounting point of view, this is not his best result of the 2017 MotoGP season: besides two fourth places in and in, Lorenzo was on the podium in. Aesthetically either, since he did not gratify British spectators with brilliance as at Mugello, when he had briefly taken control of, in and especially in Austria when he had .

But on a technical and strategic level, the n ° 99 believes that the fact of having reduced the gap on the leaders by having started more slowly – to preserve the tires at the end of the race – opens up good hopes for the next events..

Lorenzo’s delay on the leader (Rossi until the 17th lap) climbed to 4.2 seconds in the 14th lap, before stabilizing around 3.5 seconds and falling to 2.9 on Dovizioso, new leader in the 18th lap.

On arrival, the Yamaha defector is "only" 3.5 seconds behind his teammate: a good omen for the San Marino GP at Misano in 15 days, where we will see if Lorenzo returns to the "classic" fairing. Ducati which allowed the other Bologna riders this weekend to post a better top speed than him: 329.2 km / h for Bautista, 328.8 km / h for Dovizioso and Bautista, 327.7 km / h for Petrucci and "only" 324 km / h for Lorenzo…

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