Jorge Lorenzo finishes eleventh in Germany

Jorge Lorenzo finished the German GP in eleventh place. The Spanish rider, who started from the sixth grid slot on row 2, got a good start and finished the opening lap in third place, but gradually lost ground over the next few laps to drop down to eleventh by mid-race, a position he maintained until the chequered flag.

Following a one-month break, the MotoGP World Championship will next be back in action on 4-6 August in the Czech Grand Prix at Brno.

Jorge Lorenzo (Ducati Team #99) – 11th
“I can’t be satisfied with today’s result, neither with the final position nor with the gap to the winner, but after the warm-up, which went really bad, I was very worried about the race. Instead I managed to do four or five laps at a good pace in the early stages and I was racing at a decent pace until the performance dropped off on the left side of the rear tyre. In the final stages however I had to reduce my pace because the bike was spinning under acceleration and I was no longer able to fight for ninth. Both at Assen and here in Germany there were two or three corners where I was losing too much time to the riders in the leading group and I hope that we will no longer have the same problems at the next tracks. We knew that these two races were going to be pretty complicated for us but, at least here at the Sachsenring, we’ve understand several things that will be useful at the next circuits, which are better for me.”