“Everyone loved Valentino Rossi – it made you feel small” : Jorge Lorenzo
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2022 is the year where racing in MotoGP has become much closer . Some are saying that it’s the closest that it has ever been. Although many including Jorge Lorenzo are of the opinion that the intense rivalries of the past and the big personalities are missing in the sport.
Having won the MotoGP championship thrice in 2010, 2012 and 2015, the Spaniard has been in the midst of many intense rivalries. The craziest rivalry in the rider’s career and possibly in the sport is the 2015 MotoGP championship rivalry between Jorge Lorenzo, Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez.
Jorge Lorenzo won the MotoGP championship in 2015 with Rossi being his teammate. In the 2015 Sepang Press conference, Rossi said that he thought that his teammate Jorge Lorenzo was being aided by Marc Marquez with the aim to beat the Italian.
Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez had touched where it seemed like Rossi kicked #93 which in turn caused him to crash. This was a violation which the stewards deemed wrong and the then Yamaha rider was placed at the back of the grid in the final race in Valencia where Jorge Lorenzo won the title by 5 points.
“Quartararo doesn’t speak with Bagnaia like I spoke with Rossi. Jorge Lorenzo says
“Nowadays all the riders seem friends,Quartararo doesn’t speak with Bagnaia like I spoke with Rossi. Pecco doesn’t speak with Jorge Martín like Rossi spoke with Stoner. Nowadays, they all have good relationships. I have very high respect for every rider, but the ruthless battles have always fired the fans,” Lorenzo said. “I think of the fierce stare Gibernau gave to Valentino in Jerez 2015, the fights between Rossi and Stoner or Rossi and Biaggi. That rivalry was in the air,” he said.
“It was hard. Without my strong personality, probably I would have been beaten psychologically because Valentino had all the attention. Everyone loved him, and this made you feel very small,” Lorenzo said.
“But I was determined, and once I put the visor down, my only target was to open the throttle and win. Beating Rossi with the same bike gave me a lot of satisfaction and popularity,” he continued.
Jorge Lorenzo confirmed in the media that Marc Marquez did not want him to win the title in 2015. The rider had no intentions to hand over the title to Lorenzo who said that they weren’t friends. Who do you think was at fault in the collision caused between Marc Marquez and Valentino Rossi?
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