MotoGP | Lorenzo: "The 'martillo' is there, the 'mantequilla' is missing" – Moto

At the Malaysian Grand Prix, Jorge Lorenzo managed to halve the gap from the winner, taking it from the 66 seconds of Phillip Island to 34 make yourself at the Sepang finish line. This time the Spaniard managed to take home two points, although he preceded in the standings only the two KTMs of Mika Kallio and Hafizh Syahrin and the Ducati of Karel Abraham.

In the post-match interviews, the Palma de Mallorca centaur showed with satisfaction a positive aspect, namely the ability to maintain consistent lap times: "I suffered a lot with a full tank of gas because the bike didn't stop. But I knew how to keep calm and make my rhythm, and the bike has improved little by little. The good thing is that we have got two points that will be needed to fight until the last race for the team championship. More I was the most consistent rider on the track, because between my fastest lap and the slowest one there were only seven tenths, while for all the others this difference was higher".

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And to make the idea better, Lorenzo has dusted off two of his historical nicknames, namely "martillo" (hammer, ed) and "mantequilla" (butter, ed), characteristic traits of his driving style: "The 'martillo' continues to be there, the "mantequilla" is missing, because we are still very slow". Jorge finally did not escape the inconvenient analysis with the performances of Zarco, fell in Malaysia when he was in the top10, with last year's Honda: "Johann is physically strong, has not had any injuries in the last year and therefore has a lot of energy. 2018 is a less physical and less aggressive bike with tires on corners. On this track, seeing the telemetry, I lost nothing on the straights. And it was surprising because I usually lost 8-10 km / h against Nakagami. In this race I went better than Japan and Austria, because I concluded that I had set as a target close to 30 seconds ", concluded the five-time Spanish champion.