Marquez looking forward to healthy rivalry with Lorenzo
Friday - June 15, 2018 12:50 pm ,
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Marquez looking forward to healthy rivalry with Lorenzo
Montmelo (Spain) June 15 (IANS) Spanish MotoGP great Marc Marquez said he was looking forward to a healthy rivalry next season with Jorge Lorenzo who will be his new teammate at Repsol Honda.
"Rule No. 1 in a MotoGP team is to beat out your teammate. That s how it is in all the teams but there ll be things Jorge will look at from my (bike s) telemetry and sometimes it ll be the other way around " Marquez said on Thursday reports Efe.
The Spanish rider a four-time MotoGP champion leads the 2018 riders standings with 95 points 23 ahead of Italian seven-time champion Valentino Rossi heading into Sunday s Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix the seventh race on the 19-race calendar.
The 25-year-old Marquez said that in the planning for 2019 he had not expressed opposition to any of the MotoGP riders but insisted on having a strong teammate.
Repsol Honda confirmed on June 6 that it would be ending its long-standing partnership with Dani Pedrosa and that Lorenzo a 31-year-old three-time champion would ride for the team in the 2019 and 2020 seasons.
"Jorge will be coming over from Ducati. He ll have to adapt to Honda s style " Marquez said adding that as part of that process he would "look at my telemetry Cal s (LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow) Dani s (Pedrosa who has been with Repsol Honda since 2006).
"I knew they were weighing different possibilities and that one of them was Dani who s been a teammate I ve learned a lot from " he said.
"I think Dani has to be very grateful to Honda and Honda to Dani. They ve been a duo for many years; they haven t won a MotoGP title for many reasons but they ve done really important things " Marquez said of the 32-year-old Pedrosa a championship runner-up in 2007 2010 and 2012.
--IANS gau/mr
"Rule No. 1 in a MotoGP team is to beat out your teammate. That s how it is in all the teams but there ll be things Jorge will look at from my (bike s) telemetry and sometimes it ll be the other way around " Marquez said on Thursday reports Efe.
The Spanish rider a four-time MotoGP champion leads the 2018 riders standings with 95 points 23 ahead of Italian seven-time champion Valentino Rossi heading into Sunday s Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix the seventh race on the 19-race calendar.
The 25-year-old Marquez said that in the planning for 2019 he had not expressed opposition to any of the MotoGP riders but insisted on having a strong teammate.
Repsol Honda confirmed on June 6 that it would be ending its long-standing partnership with Dani Pedrosa and that Lorenzo a 31-year-old three-time champion would ride for the team in the 2019 and 2020 seasons.
"Jorge will be coming over from Ducati. He ll have to adapt to Honda s style " Marquez said adding that as part of that process he would "look at my telemetry Cal s (LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow) Dani s (Pedrosa who has been with Repsol Honda since 2006).
"I knew they were weighing different possibilities and that one of them was Dani who s been a teammate I ve learned a lot from " he said.
"I think Dani has to be very grateful to Honda and Honda to Dani. They ve been a duo for many years; they haven t won a MotoGP title for many reasons but they ve done really important things " Marquez said of the 32-year-old Pedrosa a championship runner-up in 2007 2010 and 2012.
--IANS gau/mr
