Casey Stoner reveals one aspect of Jorge Lorenzo’s riding style that he was unable to emulate.
During the 2011 and 2012 MotoGP seasons, George Lorenzo And Casey Stoner The two riders became title favorites as they battled head-to-head for the championship.
At that time, Lorenzo was on YamahaAnd Stoner had arrived at Repsol. Honda At the start of the 2011 season. Lorenzo entered the 2011 season as the reigning MotoGP champion, and Stoner came off the back of an interrupted final year at Ducati.
In the year The 2011 season saw Stoner dominate the championship as he claimed his first MotoGP crown since 2007. But in the year After Stoner broke his ankle in America in 2012, Lorenzo became the MotoGP champion for the second time in his career.
In the year Stoner retired from racing at the end of the 2012 season, opening up a seat for Marc Marquez at Repsol Honda. But the most interesting dynamic during Stoner and Lorenzo’s short rivalry was their different riding styles on the MotoGP bike.
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Jorge Lorenzo and Casey Stoner compare their different driving styles
Season MotoGP Hall of Fame DinnerLorenzo and Stoner were discussing their rivalry in MotoGP and mentioned their differences in riding style.
Stoner told Lorenzo he could not match the Spaniard’s consistency in MotoGP, describing the Australian as ‘more instinctive’.
Lorenzo said: “I wasn’t very good at adjusting, I was getting better, getting better, getting better, you were more instinctive, I was the opposite of you.”
“I was always improving, improving, improving, and always improving, improving, and improving, but you were going as fast as you could.”
Stoner replied, “Both systems work, that’s the best part. There’s more than one way to get the job done.”
There were some riders I could learn a lot from; You are one of the few who can’t learn anything because I can’t do what you can do.
“I couldn’t be consistent like that and I got to this point and I did the same thing.”
What would Marc Marquez do with Casey Stoner?
Marc Marquez and Casey Stoner were MotoGP rivals in 2012.
It was described in Matt Oxley’s book Mark The Magnificent Marc Marquez is almost guaranteed a MotoGP ride with Honda for the 2012 MotoGP season.
There were suggestions that Marquez should have partnered Dani Pedrosa in the Repsol Honda garage and Casey Stoner in his first season.
However, an injury during the 2011 Moto2 season turned down the offer to move Marquez to MotoGP a year ahead of the real-life events. The Spaniard was battling with Stefan Bradl in Moto2, before a crash at Seppang left Marquez suffering from diplopia.
Marquez’s move to Honda finally came a year later in the 2013 season and he partnered Pedrosa at the end of 2012 after Stoner retired.
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