Jorge Lorenzo
Holder of 5 titles mocked in the world championship
Jorge Lorenzo was born in Palma de Mallorca on May 4, 1987.
Since the beginning of his career, he has always raced with the 48, except for 2007/2011, where he appeared on the starting grid with the number 1, as the reigning champion of the 250 and MotoGP class.
The Spanish champion began his adventure at just four years of age, first with mini crosses and then with minibikes.
It was in the year 2000 when he obtained a derogation from the Spanish Motorcycle Federation to race the nation speed championship.
Giampiero Sacchi, at the time responsible for the racing department of the Piaggio Group, noticed him and made him make his debut in 2002 in the 125cc world championship with the Caja Madrid Derbi Racing team. Lorenzo made his debut in Jerez de la Frontera on 4 May 2002, the day of his fifteenth birthday (minimum age for racing in the world championship).
End the season in 21st place with 21 points, obtaining 7th place in Brazil as the best result.
In 2004 there were striking improvements, the Spaniard's talent emerged and ended the season in 4th place with 179 points, achieving three wins, a second place and three third places.
In 2005 he moved to 250 with the Fortuna Honda team finishing fifth in the world championship while in 2006 with the Aprilia RSV 250 team he won his first race in the category and his first world championship as the second youngest driver in history.
2007 retraces the traces of 2006, Lorenzo confirms himself as champion with an early race, collecting nine wins and 312 points.
After two successes for two consecutive years, he moved to the premier class (MotoGP) with the Yamaha Fiat team, Valentino Rossi's teammate.
After a series of falls, the first of which costs him the fracture of both ankles, he makes a season ending in crescendo and finishes in fourth place overall with 190 points, making him the best seasonal debutant of the MotoGP class.
On August 25, 2009, a few days before the Indianapolis Grand Prix, Jorge Lorenzo officially announces that he will remain at Yamaha also in 2010.
2010 opens with a second place at the Qatar GP and then wins the first race of the season at the Spanish GP in Jerez della Frontera, taking the lead in the world championship.
Consolidate his first position in the standings also winning the French GP. Rossi injured himself at the Italian GP when he fell during free practice, staying away from competitions for six weeks. So Lorenzo thanks to the second place, with Rossi still, further strengthens the leadership in the world championship.
In the end he got nine wins, sixteen podium placements and also seven pole positions, for a total of 383 points, completing all eighteen races on the calendar without ever retiring, reaching all the GPs at least in the first four places.
He wins the championship almost easily, bringing out all his talent and aggression.
In 2011 he finished second, forced to skip three stages for an injury to the ring finger of his left hand.
He returned to winning and to impose himself in 2012 with 350 points, attributable to five wins and ten second places, synonymous with great constancy and intelligence. He is the first Spaniard to win the title twice in the top category.
The 2013 season begins with pole position and victory in Qatar. In the Grand Prix of the Americas and in Spain he comes third. On June 2, 2013 in the Italian Grand Prix he wins starting second behind Dani Pedrosa, and then repeats two weeks later in the Catalan Grand Prix where he wins coming once again in front of Dani Pedrosa.
In the second free practice session of the Dutch Motorcycle Grand Prix, he loses control of his bike, falling to the ground and breaking his left collarbone. He reached 50 career victories and on May 2 the Jerez de la Frontera circuit named him a curve, renaming curve number thirteen of the track as "Lorenzo curve".
Finish the world in fifth position.
The season of 2014 is not too happy, he starts the world championship falling in Qatar and then commits a false start in Texas which costs him a ride trough and a tenth place at the finish. Ends the third season, behind his teammate Rossi and compatriot Marquez.
In 2015 after a problem with the internal helmet protections in Qatar, an episode of bronchitis in Austin and a wrong choice of tires in Argentina, he returned to success at the Jerez de la Frontera circuit where he scored pole position, also winning the three subsequent grand prizes in Le Mans, Mugello and Catalunya.
On 8 November 2015 he took the 5th world title by triumphing in the Valencia Grand Prix in front of his compatriots Marc Márquez and Dani Pedrosa. On this occasion Jorge Lorenzo overcomes the direct opponent to the title Valentino Rossi, who started from the last position (reached 4th at the finish) for irregularities detected during the Malaysian Grand Prix, for only 5 lengths.
Spain in recent years continues to churn out great talent, now it's up to the drivers to confirm the great expectations that fall on their young age.
