Šteta, ali gledati ovakvog Lorenza nije u interesu apsolutno nikome, osim možda nekakvim žestokim hejterima. U ovom trenutku ova odluka nije nimalo iznenađujuća, ali da je netko ovo rekao na početku sezone, čudno bi ga gledali.
Ozljede su očito bile točka na i nedostatku Jorgeove motivacije:
Unfortunately injuries came very soon to play an important role in my results, in my performance. I wasn't able to be in physical normal conditions, to be fast and to be competitive. And this, plus a bike that never felt natural to me, gave me a lot of problems to be competitive like I wanted to be.
"Anyway, I never lost patience, I kept working with the team, thinking that probably was a matter of time that everything came to the right place. Then when I was starting to see some light in this tunnel, happened a nasty crash in Montmelo test. And then some days later I crashed again in this ugly Assen crash, you all know the consequences that that created.
“I have to admit, when I was rolling on the gravel and I stood up, I thought to myself: ‘Okay, Jorge, is this really worth it, after what I achieved? To keep suffering? I'm done with it, I don't want to race anymore.’
“But then I came back home, I decided to give it a try, I didn't want to make any early decisions. I kept going.
“But the truth is, from that moment, the hill became so high and so big for me that I was not able to find the motivation, the patience, to keep trying to climb this mountain.
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Žao mi je što na ovakav način završava karijera trostrukog MotoGP prvaka, ni prošle dvije sezone u Ducatiju nisu bile idealne, ali nisu bile ni blizu ovogodišnjoj katastrofi. Nadam se da će u Valenciji uspjeti izvesti nekakav labuđi pjev, iako je teško realno očekivati bilo što bolje od dosadašnjeg dijela sezone.
Vidjet ćemo, kao što @Ferrari kaže, nije on još toliko star, možda se nakon nekog vremena ipak pokuša vratiti, po mogućnosti, naravno, na Yamahi - nikad se ne zna, tržište za 2021. je širom otvoreno. U svakom slučaju, iza njega je velika karijera
