Qatar MotoGP GP – Lorenzo: "I want to stay positive"

Jorge Lorenzo’s first race in the Ducati in Qatar ended with a distant eleventh place, far from his ambitions and those of his new team. The Yamaha defector, already not reassured by the changing weather conditions, suffered the demands of his new bike at the end of the race. Statements and Analysis.

Jorge Lorenzo, Ducati (12th in qualifying and 11th in race) : "It was a really complicated race in every way … I got off to a good start, but I widened in the first lap and conceded a lot of places in the standings. It conditioned the rest of my race. I felt better on the bike and started riding at the same pace as the leaders ".

“Unfortunately, in the last part of the race, I gradually lost confidence in my tires and my bike required a more physical ride. So I slowed down my pace and I couldn’t finish in the Top 10. I want to stay positive, even though my first race for Ducati did not end as I had hoped. It is also true that we are only just getting started and that we still have a lot of work to do ".

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Site analysis: Eleventh 20.5 seconds behind his replacement at Yamaha, Lorenzo hardly concealed his disappointment at the arrival of the 2017 Qatar Grand Prix, the first race contested on the Ducati after nine seasons spent on the M1 … Because even if the Mallorcan had taken care to avoid announcing the slightest objective, the possibility of making history by winning from the start obviously trotted under the helmet.

To tell the truth, there was nothing surreal about this scenario insofar as the Losail track highlights the superior acceleration capacities of the Ducatis, as Dovizioso recalled by taking second place for the third consecutive year on the Desmosedici! Lorenzo is leaving Qatar with the best top speed in the race (347.2 km / h), or 10.5 km / h faster than his old Yamaha driven by winner Maverick Viñales. Knowing that Viñales had plenty of time to take the suction of the Ducati de Dovizioso and thus grab a few additional km / h…

However, when his new team-mate Dovizioso was fighting for victory and Scott Redding was heading for a nice 7th place in a private Ducati from 2016 (!), Lorenzo was moving into the second part of the classification after a poor start to the race. … He finished more than 20 seconds from "DesmoDovi", yet considered the n ° 2 driver at Ducati: not sure that this reversed hierarchy would please the Bologna Reds, who would spend 12 million euros to afford the services by Lorenzo !

This is only the third time that Lorenzo has not started a season on the podium since his arrival in MotoGP in 2008: the two previous times date back to 2014 when he crashed while leading the race and 2015 with a fourth place. . However, the stakes are far from over: Viñales rightly reminded us that when "Jorge is confident and finds his rhythm, he is hard to beat". The whole question now is whether "Jorgeuil" will quickly be able to meet these two conditions….

In the meantime, Valentino Rossi must secretly rejoice to note that the passage of his former teammate at Ducati started even less well than his: for his first race with the Reds in, the Doctor had finished in 7th place and especially first Ducati rider on a motorcycle at the time unanimously recognized as extremely reluctant !

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