"My goal for this season is to grow, to improve myself race after race".
Speaking is Jorge Lorenzo, the five-time world champion in the world championship who after retiring from MotoGP in 2019, this season has decided to face the Porsche Carrera Cup Italia, the single-make tricolor championship of the Stuttgart house that this weekend makes a stop at the Mugello circuit to compete in the two races of the third round of 2022.
And right at Mugello on two wheels, the Majorcan won seven times (once in 2006 in the 250 class and six between 2011 and 2018 in MotoGP): "Mugello was definitely my favorite track with motorcycles - he told Lorenzo - I won a lot, but with the car it is another story. There are riders who have a lot of experience, I was not able to carry out the tests on this track as they did last week, and we also encountered a problem to the left rear suspension that we are working on and therefore I think we will be more competitive in the rest of the weekend ".
The Spaniard, in fact, certainly cannot be satisfied with his 24 / o time trial at the end of free practice, but he promises battle in qualifying and races.
"Driving in this heat is tough - continued Lorenzo -.
We are in the summer, at the height of the heat.
Inside the cockpit it can even reach 50 degrees and it is a very difficult situation, but in the end it is not as demanding as racing a motorcycle.
On the other hand, we two-wheeled riders choose to drive cars because when we no longer have the desire and age to race on motorcycles, but we want to continue to feel the flavor of competition and adrenaline with less risk and less physical requirement, racing with cars becomes an almost natural choice ".