MotoGP Mugello: Jorge Lorenzo 7th, “In the third attempt I found an engine that was a little too nervous”

• light said:

  3 June 2017 at the 20: 30

  My compliments to Lorenzo, seventh position is not the most suitable, but at least he is not too far from the leaders as has already happened. The race pace shown in FP4 was much better where he was on par with all the best, maintaining a good pace with impressive consistency, almost as he had accustomed us to in his time with Yamaha.

  The work is finally paying off, we see it right from the start and not just in the final stages of testing. The basic setting seems to have been identified and progress continues with the necessary modifications. I want to congratulate him, it can't be easy for an already trained and successful rider to violate himself by distorting his riding style to adopt one more suited to the needs of the bike. We have never heard him make claims about modifying this or that aspect, he has always tried to modify the set-up to better adapt it to his riding, he has tried to identify all the strong points of the bike, listing the weak ones in view of further updates . I saw a rider at the peak of his career, humble himself to find the right path to make this bike go fast, I saw a rider capable of eliminating all the good things he has done in recent years with Yamaha, to start from scratch with a bike completely different and all this was done without him having brought his laurels and victories into question, working like the most humble of riders, accepting the fact of having to distort his style and then restructure it according to Ducati's needs.

  Don't let all the Valentino Rossi technicians/fans get angry now. Vale certainly didn't do what Lorenzo did, on the contrary, he adopted the opposite technique. He never focused on identifying the positive characteristics of the bike, right from the start he made requests that distorted the bike's nature. It was never a humble Valentino who arrived at Ducati, he never did anything to adapt to the bike, but he demanded that the bike adapt to him, with the results that we all know and the fact that everyone the aforementioned technicians consider the 2010 Ducati to be a tricycle, so much so that even in the last race with Stoner, the Ducati started from Pole and finished 2nd at the finish line. What I want to underline is the approach that the 2 riders had upon their arrival at Ducati. The most famous one arrived with the presumption of being able to fix everything and perhaps this unsuccessful experience helped him to grow a little, the second one showed up the opposite of his colleague, very humble, with the desire to know the bike well and without the presumption of having a motorbike that immediately suited him, but even capable of distorting everything that made him successful to undertake this new challenge with the right spirit. All my compliments and best encouragement go to Lorenzo for a great season in Red.

  Great Ducati
  Great Lorenzo
  Great Dovizioso

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• Bestlap said:

  4 June 2017 at the 10: 16

  Maybe we see different things.. I see a rider who has never been humble in his life who earns 12 million a season and is almost always the last Ducati on the grid like here at Mugello.. A rider who flaunts loudly the FEW times he is was in front of the team mate, as is written in Dovi's post.. Where is all this humility..?? The D4 current…………..

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