Defending champion Jorge Lorenzo names four favourite
riders for 2013 – MotoGP news
Reigning MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo claims himself one of four favourite riders for the 2013 MotoGP title.
“I'm the man to beat because I won the last championship, but Pedrosa won a lot last season, including the finale, so he has to be a favourite and then there's Marquez. Valentino is also
a contender and cannot have forgotten how to win. The four of us are the favourites, but there can always be surprises and so I don't like to make predictions,” Lorenzo said while talking to La Gazzetta dello Sport.
For Lorenzo, 2013 will be the sixth MotoGP season. Ever since his MotoGP debut in 2008, Lorenzo has been riding for Yamaha and has claimed 2 MotoGP crowns with a total of 23 Grand Prix victories
and 60 podiums.
Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi will be teammates once again in the upcoming MotoGP season. According to Lorenzo, Rossi is a great rider and has all the makings to claims yet another MotoGP title.
“My weak point is the starts and also in the wet I have to improve, but we [Rossi and I] will both have the same opportunities this year and the same Yamaha,” Lorenzo said while talking about
Rossi’s chances of winning the 2013 title.
For the seven times MotoGP champion Rossi, 2011 and 2012 were the worst MotoGP seasons. Riding a Ducati bike, Rossi could not win even a single round for two consecutive years. He finished
a dismal 7th in 2011 MotoGP season and failed to improve much in 2012, finishing the 2012 season with a 6th place on the final riders’ standings.
According to Lorenzo, Honda teammates Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez are the other two favourites for the upcoming MotoGP season. Pedrosa gave a real tough time to Lorenzo in the last MotoGP
season and expected to do the same this year as well. 2013 will be MotoGP debut for Marquez but considering the energy Marquez has and his outstanding run in the 2012 Moto2 championship, Lorenzo has speculated him as a favourite.
The Yamaha teammates will test their bikes alongside their Honda rivals at Sepang on February 5, 2013.
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