Jorge Lorenzo: “Valentino Rossi was kind to the cameras - I could not and did not want to do that”
Teammates and rivals Lorenzo and R🐎ossi battled on and off-track, infamously 🥀creating a wall down the centre of their garage to prevent secrets leaking to the other side.
Their differing personalities defined their era of MotoGP - 🃏Rossi was char🐎acterised as affable and lovable, Lorenzo as aloof and cold.
"For better or for worse I always said what I thought", Lorenzo sai꧃d.
"I was authentic because I had to go out and compete. Ross🔴i knew how to be kind to the cameras before going out,💝 while for me it was something I couldn't and didn't want to do.
"There are diffe💝rent types of riders - those who are nicer and get along well with everyone and t☂hose who are more with the team.
“I didn't get aloꦅng very well because I was always working."
Lorenzo ended his career with three premier class championships, compared to Rossi’s seven. They each wo✱n two world championships with the other as 🌠their teammate.
Lorenzo said about retiring from MotoGP: "What I miss most 💞is winning.
“I believe that one is born competitive because of genetics or that directly he does▨ not like to compete. I'm very competitive, at school I invented games with my friends to beat them.”
He hated defeat even as a child, he explained: "You have no other choice, I had to learn when I was 10 year﷽s old. Out of 7 races I won 6, but when I didn't win and finished third I didn't even want to get on the podium."
But Lorenzo reveals how age 🐬can inhibit a rid🐠er: "At 20 in the wet I won, but at 30 my head stopped my wrist and did not let me give gas because I saw the danger.”
James was a sports jouཧrnalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything ♏from American sports, to football, to F1.
