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With three wins and a total of ten stage appearances from 13 events so far this season, Jorge Lorenzo has provided an
excellent job for the Fiat Yamaha squad in only his second year in the premier class.
The Spaniard is due to complete
the year in a top two position in the rankings and if he wasn’t challenging for the championship with one of the most
famous competitors, Valentino Rossi, he may have taken the title this season.
Fiat Yamaha Team bossr Daniele Romagnoli
explains, “This season is really great for us, we’re very happy with the improvements the team has made, working
on the set-up of the bike. Jorge has also progressed a lot as he’s now able to be very consistent, fast in every session
and every race really. I think he will be the biggest rider in the future.”
He adds, “The best moment
of the season so far was the Japanese Grand Prix. It was really important for us to get a win early on in the season and Jorge
was able to get that one. Overall, we have to look at the fact that we’re regularly challenging Valentino - riding against
him and challenging him is a great honour and a big satisfaction.”
Commenting on Lorenzo’s effort at
home in Barcelona, where he just missed out on a win against Rossi by 0.095s, Romagnoli says, “Catalunya showed that
although we didn’t win it was an important race because Jorge was able to push Valentino, right until the end. So it
was not like a real loss, Jorge just got beaten on the last corner.”
On the remaining four events of 2009,
the Italian manager adds, “Being 30 points behind Valentino, we know that getting the title would be very hard, but
I think we have to try until the very end and put in maximum effort. You never know what can happen, the mathematics say it’s
possible, so we’ll try. The most important thing is to try to be on the podium as often as possible and always be among
the leaders.”
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