Jorge Lorenzo was considered somewhat of a diva during his highly successful MotoGP career, but former team principal Ramon Forcada says the three-time world champion wasn’t so bad to work with.
The Spaniard himself admitted that even when he was a competitor in the premier class. His relationship with rivals such as Valentino Rossi was “generally strained”. Because they are ‘two divas, very proud, and thinking that we are the best’.
It’s easy to be painted as a villain when you go against one of the sport’s most beloved and iconic figures, and that’s exactly what happened. Lorenzo When he was with Dr Yamaha.
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The Japanese builder had the best bike on the grid at the time, and when the two fastest sat on two wheels and rode them, sparks were bound to fly from the podium.
Ramon Forcada insists it was not difficult to work with Jorge Lorenzo in MotoGP.
In a recent appearance DuralvitaRamon Forcada, Lorenzo’s former crew chief, was asked for his thoughts on who the easiest and most difficult MotoGP riders are to work with in the sport.
The former Yamaha man has described 13-time motorcycle grand prix winner John Kosinski as the most difficult rider to work with, detailing that three-time MotoGP world champion Lorenzo was not as bad as many thought.
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He said: “George was not difficult to work with. Working with and living with are two different things. Like George the rider and George the man, they are two different people.
“George had one good quality as a rider, that’s why he won what he won. He knew where to go fast. The man will tell you, if you make the bike brake better in this corner, I’m going to win.”
“And then you do it. You do it with the geometry, with the constraints, with that. But he knew exactly: if it wasn’t going fast, why was that? Not everyone knows.”
According to Ramon Forcada, Alex Barros was the easiest MotoGP rider to work with.
Forcada said he found the premier class driver the easiest to work with, which he named seven-time Grand Prix winner Alex Barros.
The rider/crew chief pairing spent two years together at Honda, making it the most successful period of the Brazilian’s career in MotoGP.
He said: “Barros, for sure, was the easiest, probably the easiest, because the guy would get off the bike and say, ‘Look, this is what’s wrong, and this is the problem.’
“Then he’d leave and never come back. And I’d say, ‘Alex, what did we do with this?’ you say And he says, ‘No, I know you’ll fix it.’ And that was it.”
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