Jorge Lorenzo admitted that he was sort of worried when he saw the pace that the Repsol Honda riders had during the warm-up practice in Qatar, but says his victory is due to his never give up attitude.
The Yamaha rider spent more than three quarters of the race between Stoner and Pedrosa, with the Spaniard pushing him all the way wondering when Pedrosa would blast past him on the long Losail straight, but the tide turned for the Yamaha rider when Stoner started to fade.
“What an amazing race! I put everything I have, all my energy on the track, into this victory is because I never gave up, kept pushing and trying,” said Lorenzo.
“Casey was very strong at the beginning and opened a gap.
Fortunately for us he struggled at the end and dropped his pace where I could keep mine so I managed to pass him.
I am very grateful to Yamaha because they have made a big step this winter on the YZR-M1,”Ben Spies finishing in 11th confounded many fans who couldn’t understand why he faded so fast, thinking it was some sort of bad set-up, instead the reason was that dreaded vibration that riders call chatter.
“A tough race but sometimes that’s just the way it goes.
I tested my airbag twice this weekend; good to know it works well! We’ll go back to Jerez now and hopefully have the bike issue sorted.
It was good that Jorge won, we can see the Yamaha is going well, we just had a big problem with chatter so we have to work out what it was,” said Spies.
He also added on his Twitter page “That’s what happens when u ride a bike that’s been crashed twice.
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