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MotoGP
MOTOGP: Noyes’ Notebook - Jorge Who?
While Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner continue to steal the headlines, Jorge Lorenzo is quietly marching toward a second MotoGP World Championship.
Yamaha Factory Racing's Jorge Lorenzo (Photo: Yamaha Racing)
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While the season’s MotoGP headlines have been monopolized by one rider who is retiring and who has nothing very good to say about the current state of the series and another who has not won a race since October 10, 2010, Spain’s Jorge Lorenzo has won five of ten races and leads his nearest rival, Dani Pedrosa, by 23 points.
Jorge must be getting used to being upstaged by Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner. The same thing happened the last time Jorge was off to such a good start. As in 2010, when he won the title, over the first ten races of this 18-race season his brilliant riding has earned less media attention than the press releases of Stoner and Rossi.
In May of 2010 and 2012 Stoner made a big announcement. And Rossi in August of those same two years, made -- relative to his impact on the sport -- even bigger ones. Meanwhile, Lorenzo just kept winning races (and when he didn’t, finishing on the podium.)
Back in '10, Jorge was leading the points table over Dani Pedrosa (Honda) and Casey Stoner (Ducati) after ten races, but the early season attention was directed elsewhere when the Austrlian announced in mid-May that he had already signed with Honda for 2011. That media-trumped Lorenzo's Spanish victory that gave him a four-point lead over Rossi after two rounds.
And when Rossi, who started the season with an injured shoulder after a dirtbike training fall, crashed and broke his leg in Mugello during practice just two weeks after Lorenzo has won his second GP in a row to extend his lead over Valentino, the Spaniard was so stunned by finding his main rival out that he confessed that he choked that day. Wanting to take no risks, he lost to Pedrosa by four seconds but then bounced back to win the next three in a row.
By midseason, Lorenzo was well clear and pulling away. But then, on the same day that he won his seventh race is ten starts, August 15th, 2010, at the Grand Prix of the Czech Republic, it was made official that Rossi was leaving Yamaha to go to Ducati. And that was the dominant buzz for the remainder of the season.
While the season’s MotoGP headlines have been monopolized by one rider who is retiring and who has nothing very good to say about the current state of the series and another who has not won a race since October 10, 2010, Spain’s Jorge Lorenzo has won five of ten races and leads his nearest rival, Dani Pedrosa, by 23 points.
Jorge must be getting used to being upstaged by Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner. The same thing happened the last time Jorge was off to such a good start. As in 2010, when he won the title, over the first ten races of this 18-race season his brilliant riding has earned less media attention than the press releases of Stoner and Rossi.
In May of 2010 and 2012 Stoner made a big announcement. And Rossi in August of those same two years, made -- relative to his impact on the sport -- even bigger ones. Meanwhile, Lorenzo just kept winning races (and when he didn’t, finishing on the podium.)
Back in '10, Jorge was leading the points table over Dani Pedrosa (Honda) and Casey Stoner (Ducati) after ten races, but the early season attention was directed elsewhere when the Austrlian announced in mid-May that he had already signed with Honda for 2011. That media-trumped Lorenzo's Spanish victory that gave him a four-point lead over Rossi after two rounds.
And when Rossi, who started the season with an injured shoulder after a dirtbike training fall, crashed and broke his leg in Mugello during practice just two weeks after Lorenzo has won his second GP in a row to extend his lead over Valentino, the Spaniard was so stunned by finding his main rival out that he confessed that he choked that day. Wanting to take no risks, he lost to Pedrosa by four seconds but then bounced back to win the next three in a row.
By midseason, Lorenzo was well clear and pulling away. But then, on the same day that he won his seventh race is ten starts, August 15th, 2010, at the Grand Prix of the Czech Republic, it was made official that Rossi was leaving Yamaha to go to Ducati. And that was the dominant buzz for the remainder of the season.
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