• Report.Honda signs a possible substitute for Jorge Lorenzo: the story of a heartbreak

In this long nightfall that will only end if you surrender and accept the withdrawal that Honda already hints at, Jorge Lorenzo does not hunt a single joy, there is no happy day that warns of a better future. From the carambola he caused in Montmeló and his mid-season back injury, all training, all races are suffering. For any follower of the MotoGP World Cup, beyond their own fans, seeing the champion three times on the asphalt is an incomprehensible anguish. Even when? We will have to see if until next month in Cheste or until the end of next year, when your contract ends.

While still accumulating misfortunes and demerits. This Friday, at the start of the Australian Grand Prix, two: Marc Márquez approached him on the track and Johann Zarco , the driver who signed Honda as a possible substitute, rolled already on his first day faster than him. A disaster.

The incident with Márquez, the one that can mark Lorenzo's future in Honda more than it seems, occurred at the end of the second training session. Márquez was flying in a fast lap when when entering curve 11 Lorenzo was found rolling much slower and could not avoid the touch: Lorenzo's front brake lever protector jumped through the air and the current champion left the place with A considerable anger. So considerable that shortly after, in the area of ​​rehearsals, he waited for the arrival of his partner and there he was affected by what happened in a very graphic way.

Marquez put both hands on the left side of the helmet, as if it were a pillow, recriminating Lorenzo who was asleep. The oldest of the two made a gesture of responding, but when he realized Marquez had already accelerated on his way to his garage.

There surely both had a few words and there surely Lorenzo discovered the second bad news of the day. Johann Zarco, the driver that Honda has put to the test these last three races in case he needs a substitute for the Spaniard, was already faster than him. He did not need a single adaptation session to show that Lorenzo's performance is vastly improved. In the first round of training, in the wet, he took Lorenzo out almost a second and in the second, already in the dry, he surpassed him in almost three tenths. French was fifteenth and Spanish was sixteenth.

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