Jorge Lorenzo is confident of challenging Marc Marquez for a third MotoGP world crown next year.
This season, Lorenzo finished outside the World Championship top two for the first time since his first MotoGP campaign in 2008.
The Spaniard suffered a number of issues throughout the campaign, including having to struggle with a new tyre early in the year.
Marquez revealed, “I am now at about 70% of my effort for training. From January we’ll be back to maximum power to be better at the beginning of the season. I am looking forward to first relaxing and then to training very hard,”
“When you are already a World Champion in MotoGP, you want to repeat it. Second place is good, third place is good, but obviously we are here to try and win. We know it is not going to be easy because Marquez and Honda together are very strong; they are a very strong couple. But I think if we put in all of our efforts, if the Yamaha is good and so am I, from both a physical and mental side.I think I can fight.”
Four of the last five MotoGP world crowns have gone the way of either Lorenzo or Marquez, with the only exception being Casey Stoner’s title win in 2011.
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