Jorge Lorenzo qualifies 4th at Valencia

A super heated last qualifying session of the season at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit this afternoon saw Movistar Yamaha MotoGP’s Jorge Lorenzo secure fourth place on the grid.

Lorenzo was one of the last riders to get on the track this afternoon. Once out he immediately fired off a fast lap and set provisional pole with a 1’31.726, before getting pushed back to eighth as the pace quickened.

He went on to improve with a 1’31.421 to rise back up to second and with seven minutes remaining returned to the pits for a fresh rear qualifying tyre.

Three minutes later he was back out and continued to improve his time when he put in another hot lap of 1’31.049, to move up four places to second.

He looked good for a front row until a flurry of late activity from other riders pushed him to fourth position, on the second row.

Jorge Lorenzo – 4th | 1’31.049 (+0.206) | 7 Laps
“Fourth place is good, keeping in mind that all the riders’ times are very close. I tried to do some good lap times. I did one fast lap but I made a mistake in the second and I went wide and I lost one or two tenths of a second. Valentino was behind me and he improved his lap time and went in front. This happens sometimes and you can lose some positions because of it. Our rivals are really competitive and they can take slow corners really late and exit corners very easily with a lot of acceleration, but we are not so bad. We have a great pace. The race is going to be long, so it won’t be easy but we have a lot of potential to win the race.”

Source: Yamaha MotoGP