Jorge Lorenzo may have finished second today at the Sachsenring GP, but it was his roaring pass on Casey Stoner on the last corner that satisfied the Yamaha rider the most and everyone else watching the daring move.
I’m very happy! It has been a fantastic race today,” said Lorenzo.
“From the middle of the race I got very tired in my left hand so I didn’t know where I could find the force to push and keep pushing to the end.
Then Casey stopped the bike a lot two corners from the end so I took profit from it, opened full throttle and in the last corner I went for it.
It was a miracle pass! This race is very important so we are very proud and happy with the result.
I have to thank my Yamaha crew who worked very hard to give me a fast bike all weekend, they have been fantastic.
” Just a curiosity on our part, we sure would like to know what the leg wave from Ben Spies after he crossed the finish line in 5th meant and why Marco Simoncelli responded with the same, unfortuntely the American doesn’t talk about it in his post race comment:“Unfortunately I got to the front group a little too late but I tried as hard as I could.
I just lacked some rear grip in the beginning, I tried to be consistent and hope they came back to me because I couldn’t run the pace they were running in the beginning.
Lap time wise it was probably the most consistent I’ve ever done in a race.
We caught up to them with three laps to go and then all hell broke loose.
Simoncelli started trying to find a way past Dovizioso and every time I tried to look to go past one of them was on one side of the track and the other on the other side.
It was fair play, they were racing each other but it kind of messed up my game plan! Simoncelli ran wide at the end so I got him again in the last corner.
I wish we could have got Dovizioso because we had the pace, we just ran out of laps.
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