Jorge Lorenzo spoke on “The Wild Project” Podcast about his move up to the premier class and how the Yamaha fits him like a “glove”.
The former Spanish rider and DAZN commentator spoke about his MotoGP debut and his rivalry with Valentino Rossi.
– I was very impertinent, very cocky. I thought I was going to eat the world. That character was real, but sometimes I forced it and wanted it to seem that way. I countered my shyness with this arrogance, but the problem was that in MotoGP there was a guy called Valentino Rossi. He was the Michael Jordan of MotoGP. He was also Yamaha’s undisputed best rider
He added about Rossi: “Rossi didn’t want a fast teammate on the team, but at the time he was talking about going to F1, so Yamaha prepared in case he left and hired me. And what did he do? He put up a wall in the pits. What’s more, he demanded that I race with Bridgestone and I with Michelin. Even so, I took pole positions and won races. Everything matched up and Rossi didn’t understand a thing.