Lorenzo: Aragon MotoGP difficult but practice shows potential
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Jorge Lorenzo is eager to bounce back from a disappointing showing at the Aragon MotoGP in Thailand as he hopes to rediscover the stronger pace he displayed in practice at the Spanish track.After promising signs during practice at Aragon, Lorenzo suffered during the race to finish a lowly 20th place, only ahead of Hafizh Syahrin on track, and 46 seconds behind team-mate and race-winner Marc Marquez.Speaking after the Aragon race the Spanish rider urged Honda to cater to the requirements of all of its riders with both him and Cal Crutchlow struggling with similar issues with the RC213V this year having felt Honda’s speed gains were at the expense of cornering stability.Looking to find fresh momentum in Thailand, Lorenzo returns to the circuit which triggered an awful 12 months for the 32-year-old when he sustained injuries in a practice which ruled him out of the following four rounds towards the end of his time at Ducati.“Last year I did not have the best weekend in Thailand with a big ruling me out of the race,” Lorenzo said. “I am looking forward to completing the race there and we saw from Marc last year that the RC213V is strong at this circuit.“After the difficult race in Aragon, I am hoping we can have a good weekend. During practice we showed that our pace is getting better and delivering on this potential is our objective for Thailand.”Lorenzo has now gone over a year since his last top 10 in MotoGP, when he claimed his final win for Ducati in the 2018 Austrian round, having suffered multiple high-profile injuries across that period.After his heavy fall in Thailand resulted in a wrist injury which ruled him out of action for the rest of the flyaway rounds, before battling through the discomfort at the 2018 finale at Valencia, a pre-season training accident saw him miss the opening test in Malaysia for Honda at the start of the year.Lorenzo’s nasty practice at Assen last June, in which he sustained a fractured vertebrae, saw him miss the following four rounds while he has fought against the pain at his last three rounds.
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