E' Lorenzo the favorite, says Rossi
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At the end of the press conference with the other riders, Valentino Rossi spoke to the microphones of Sky Sports. “In my opinion Jorge Lorenzo is the clear favorite to win the championship,” he recounted, “Then there is Marc Marquez, who had some problems in testing but then solved them. And then Honda always comes, history tells us that, unfortunately for us. Pedrosa is not to be forgotten: he is never very fast in testing. And Maverick Viñales was also strong, besides me. And in Qatar the Ducatis also went strong, not only Iannone and Dovizioso but also Redding.”
“I feel very similar to last year,” he added, “I’m quite fit, I’m motivated, in the tests I did quite well, even better than last year. The bike is competitive, but Lorenzo went stronger than me two out of three times in the tests. There will be to suffer, work and suffer.”
Rossi will have an extra Cadalora. “With the computer and telemetry, you can see a lot of situations, but on the track it’s another thing,” he clarified. “He knows the bike, he knows the tracks: with his expert eye and experience he can see that last 10 percent that the computer can’t point out to you. We’re going to do an intelligent job: I’m going to send him to follow me where I’m struggling so that he can do better.”
