Jorge Lorenzo is magnificent at Jerez, while Ben Spies crashes out

I admit if I was Jorge Lorenzo tonight and took a look at forums and websites, I’d be slightly pissed.
Not only did he ride to the best of his ability, managed to stay on his Yamaha M1 in a crash strewn race with tires that ended up looking like slicks instead of rain , take his win in the wet for the very first time, but what is everyone talking about, the Rossi-Stoner incident and Rossi adoring race marshals.

“It has been one of my most patience races.
It’s a great victory, which we needed and I feel so good.
This is also the first time I have won in wet conditions, the first time ever!” exclaimed Lorenzo.
“Now we are working to improve our bike, taking as much points as possible on the way.
The King of Spain said to me that he would bring me good luck after our meeting last February in Madrid, he was right! With the competition so high this year I never imagined I would be leader after two races.

I am so happy to have won this weekend, especially as my friends from Yamaha Indonesia came all the way here to support us; Semakin di Depan’ means ‘One Step Ahead’ which was true today!And Ben ‘Elbowz’ Spies? Can you imagine crashing out with only three laps to go and running in second to take your first podium of the season on the factory M1 and it could have been Yamaha 1-2 to make the Japanese manufacturer proud.

That must have been a real bummer.
“I don’t think of it as a race today, it was more attrition.
Once we moved into fourth behind Nicky I knew I could get past so just waited for the right moment.
Dani was only a few seconds ahead of me and I thought for sure we could get on the podium.
I slowly started to catch him, Jorge was obviously going to win but we could go one two.
I put it all out there and caught Dani.
As soon as I passed him I knew that we had second place under control, he wouldn’t be able to get back by but I needed to not make any mistakes.
Every corner after I passed him I slowed down, taking it easy then all of a sudden I was on the floor.
Obviously it was my mistake, but looking at the data I was going slower than I had all race.
It was one of those things; I think the tyres were the limiting factor today.
I think it was a great show for the crowd though!”