Jorge Lorenzo launched a scathing attack on Fiat Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi after the Italian defeated him in a captivating conclusion to sunday’s Japanese MotoGP race.
Lorenzo could accept fourth position as he took another giant stride towards lifting his maiden MotoGP crown.
What he found tough to stomach was the manner in which Rossi condemned him to a second successive fourth place as the Ducati bound star snatched a last-gasp third. Motorcycle News
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“The show is great for the people to enjoy and the business of motorcycle racing, it’s fantastic, but when you are a rider who is on a MotoGP bike which gets up to 300 km/h in the straight and 180-200 km/h in the corners and you are feeling the other rider touch you it’s not a great feeling or a good emotion because you know you are putting your life at risk,” said Lorenzo in the attached video interview. “The three or four moves I made on Valentino I felt were correct and fair. On the other hand his moves were legal but on the limit, from my point of view. We have seen the way he likes to fight, it happened before with Gibernau, then with Stoner, and now with me. Maybe in the future his rivals will get a little bit mad and we will act like he usually does!”
Lorenzo added: “We are team-mates, I am fighting for the Riders’ Championship but we are both fighting for the Teams’ and Manufacturers’ Championship as well and we have to remember this. I am disappointed to miss the podium of course because I wanted one at Yamaha’s home, but this is racing.” Motogp.com
Yamaha management have told Valentino Rossi that he was too aggressive in his defence of third position against team-mate and title leader Jorge Lorenzo in the closing stages of Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi.
“After the race, Jorge came to us and asked our opinion of Rossi’s behaviour during the race. There were four of us. Besides me, there was Furusawa and another two people from Yamaha.” Yamaha Motor Racing Managing Director of Lin Jarvis said.
“We, together, were in agreement with the fact that a battle like that between team-mates makes no sense. We expect our riders to race with a higher margin of safety and they were too close today.”
“After that, Furusawa went to talk to Valentino, and he asked him to adopt a different approach when racing other Yamaha riders.” Yahoo! Eurosport UK
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