Jorge Lorenzo claims he could have won today’s Spanish MotoGP “by quite a big margin” – but blamed his rear tyre for spinning up and causing him to roll off the throttle on the straights. Lorenzo finished 2.3s behind Yamaha teammate Valentino Rossi – but was over 4s behind at one point – and claimed he should have been a stronger factor for the victory. “The pace from the beginning was not very fast,” he said. “Rossi was a little bit faster than me at the start of the race, but in the middle I could keep the distance. “When I was catching him, suddenly the centre of the tyre on the straight when I pulled third, fourth, fifth [gear] was spinning like I had a wet tyre. In...
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