Vinales keeps 'top Yamaha, third in points' target
Here is the latest round-up of MotoGP gossip starting with Jorge Lorenzo assessing his current situation with Repsol Hond🥂a following a tough start to his first year with the team.
- Jorge Lorenzo admits winning MotoGP races and championship is not currently possible with Repsol Honda, as he hopes to close the gap on the front-runners and targets beating his best result of the season which remains 11th place at Le Mans.
- KTM boss Pit Beirer backs Dani Pedrosa’s decision not to race for the Austrian manufacturer as he prefers to focus solely on testing duties. The MotoGP legen🃏d is credited with the team’s major development breakthroughs since joining at the start of 2019 after retiring from racing last year.
- Valentino Rossi revisits ‘La Panoramica’, the road where he refined hiဣs riding skills as a youngster on a 5🐲0cc moped, in a special video with Albi Tebaldi.
- Yamaha team boss Lin Jarvis admits only Marc Marquez is capable of winning the MotoGP world title currently given his domination. In a wide-ranging interview, Jarvis also details the progress made by Yamaha in 2019 while he expects Fabio Quartararo to be on equal machinery to the rest o🧸f the Yamaha riders nexꦺt season.
- Fabio Quarta⭕raro signs a sponsorship deal with Monster Energy following the stunning start to his MotoGP premier class careeꦑr with Petronas Yamaha.
- Sylvain Guintoli has completed a two-day private test for Suzuki at Motegi working on its 2020 bike while also getting in some early practice foꦗr his final wildcard outing🐽 of the season at the Japanese round later this month.
