Jorge Lorenzo has been asked about retu๊rning to Moto෴GP with wildcard races, as Dani Pedrosa has done.

Pedrosa, now a KTM test rider, received pla🐠udits from onlook🌳ers and fellow riders with his wildcard appearances last season.

Now 38 and six years on from his full-♋time racin🐻g retirement, Pedrosa will race as a wildcard for KTM in Jerez this year.

🌳Could his fierce rival Lorenzo imagine doing the same?

“Motorcycles and racing have been✃ part of my life for 30 years,🌱” he told .

“Th𝓡ey are still part of my life, but in a different way.

“I have competed for 18 years as a professional.

“The adrenaline and happiness that winning races and being a 🥃MotoGP🗹 champion generates is very difficult to achieve in other areas of life.

“But, to achieve victorie꧟s and championships, one has to sacrifice many things in one's life and has to lose others that are als🌃o very interesting.

“It is very difficult൩ to repeat those peaks of happin𓆏ess.

“But now, taking an average of my days, I consider myself happier than before.ဣ”

He shut downඣ the idea of following in Pedrosa’s footstep✨s.

“Not at all, that chapter of m🙈y life is completely closed,” Lorenzo said.

“If I haven't returned when I'm 33 or 34 years𒁃 ol𒈔d, I'm not going to do it now.

“Nor to be a test rider.

“Cars give me adrenaline 𓆉and competition and without so much risk, I don't think I'll work as a motorcycle racer again.”

Lorenzo retired five years ago from a career which 🦩yielded two MoܫtoGP titles, and is now 36.

He remains racing - but now on four wheels.

“I will continue competing,” he said.

“I will do it with Aston Marᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtin, in the Italian GT. This year there will only be four racꦗes.”

Lorenzo also workꦺs as a broadcaster o🗹n MotoGP for Spanish television.

He desc🦹ribed it: “Very relaxeꦇd, it's not the pressure of racing when you're a rider.

“When you are a rider, you not only have pressure f♔rom your team𒉰 and sponsors, but you are risking your life every time you put on your helmet.

“Talking about motorcycles is much easier given the difficulty o🐲f the job, because it also has its 🧜own thing.

“I have a great time talking about what I✃ like most, contribu✱ting my experience to the viewer.”