After two years at Ducati that did not yield the desired results in a timely manner, Jorge Lorenzo moved to Repsol Honda in the 2019 MotoGP season. There, he found the then five-time MotoGP World Champion, Marc Márquez, as his teammate – in the leading team of the paddock.
More than four years after his last MotoGP season, the three-time world champion admitted on the Tengo un Plan podcast that he lived through 2019 with a lot of intensity: ‘I have always been very observant, and I think it’s free information, it practically costs nothing. Until it became obsessive, in 2019 I practically didn’t live; it was all work and dedication. I really wanted to win with that Honda that retired so many riders: it retired [Dani] Pedrosa, Pol Espargaró, double world champions. Joan Mir is also having a lot of difficulties, and Marc Márquez had no other choice but to leave, and it also retired me’.
Lorenzo admitted that he developed an obsession, when it is necessary to balance: ‘I was obsessed, I only worked, and that is another issue: always trying to find the compromise between enjoying and discipline. And that is not easy; sometimes I wasn’t happy because I worked too much. There must also be moments when you allow yourself to have whims, some small reward you give yourself for a job well done, some party, eat poorly one day, go to the movies, moments of happiness and leisure, or else your head will explode’.