Blaž Štremfelj
Jorge Lorenzo he said he was surprised by the decision Yamaha, from Valentina Rossi evicted from the factory team. Rossi lost his place in the team after 15 seasons of racing for the Yamaha factory team last year as he had to garage let go to a talented young racer Fabio Quartararo.
All veteran he will not end his career yet. With the young French they will basically just swap places. Italian will be racing for the Yamaha semi-factory team this year, Petronas SRT, where he raced Quartararo last year, and Yamaha's move came as a surprise three-time world champion Lawrence. “Yamaha’s decision to evict Rossi from a semi-factory team like Petronas surprised me. I would never have expected that, ” he admitted in an interview for Sky Italy. "For him, however, not much will change and his transfer will be a good success. We saw Quartararo and his teammate Franco Morbidelli do well. The motorcycle is competitive, and Yamaha, like all teams, has to take care of its future. ”
Lynn Jarvis, the head of the Yamaha team, recently admitted that Lorenzo came to Yamaha as replacement for Rossi, with whom, however, they eventually became teammates. “I joined them myself in 2008 as they prepared for the possible departure of Valentino. The fact that they chose Quartararo is completely logical, because the future belongs to young racers. ”
We won’t see Lorenzo on the track this season as he was left without a role last year test racer Yamaha and although he was negotiating for a similar job with April, there was no bread from this flour. The Spaniard, however, hinted that he might become manager which of the racers. “For my future, I have selected a few options that are less stressful than racing in MotoGP, but are just as exciting. One of them is to become a commentator on the transmissions, but I do not rule out the possibility of helping a young racer with my knowledge and becoming his manager. ”
