MotoGP – Jorge Lorenzo: "Not 100%, but I'll be there in Shanghai"

Yesterday in Spain was 'Book Day'. But also 'San Jorge'. There couldn't have been a better day for Jorge Lorenzo, who spent the entire afternoon in Barcelona sent to five different bookshops and/or shopping centers to meet/sign his autobiography "Jorge Lorenzo, Xfuera desde interior" to his fans, created thanks to the contribution of Ernest Riveras, commentator of the MotoGP on TVE. In these promotional-media commitments, the championship leader also spent a few minutes meeting the journalists present, to whom he confided his state of form following the recent operation on his forearms.

“What I can say is that I'm not 100%, but I'll be there in Shanghai”, says the Mallorcan driver. “I only had surgery on one arm to have at least one “good” one for Shanghai. They tell me I should recover already for China, but I think I won't be in top shape anyway. I will go there to try to do my best: my arm hurts, it will be difficult but I will give the best of myself".

Jorge Lorenzo then confirmed that he will undergo surgery on his left forearm at the end of this intense season immediately after the Valencia round, so as to be able to get on track for the last tests of 2008 in Jerez de la Frontera, at the end of November. Speaking about the current championship, he reiterated his thoughts on the matter..

“I watch race by race and don't think about the title. It would be presumptuous of me to think, as a rookie, of winning the championship.". Right so. And Pedrosa? “I have already said everything and more about him and our relationship. We are different, we are not great friends, period, the question ends there. I don't want to cause controversy, and it seems to me that he and her entourage also think the same way. Let's just look at the track". Finally!…