The 2017 S✤panish MotoGP saw Jorg⭕e Lorenzo celebrate his first success at Ducati in the form of a debut podium on the Desmosedici.

The triple world champio♕n went on to claim two♋ further rostrums and climb to seventh in the standings, with the expectation that things would be much easier in his second season at the team.

But so far the results have been worse.

Lorenzo returns to Jerez having scored just six points in the op𓄧ening three rounds (compared with twelve last year) and ho🅷lds 16th in the world championship (compared with 13th).

Rubbing salt into the wounds is that team-mate Andrea D♊ovizioso has won a race and leads the world championship.

Might a further poor result this weekend - at one of Lorenzo's favourite tracks - 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:push him into the arms of Suzuki for 2019?

“After the difficult race at Austin it’s now time to change the situation and I🌞 come to Spain determined to do well," said ওLorenzo, who celebrates his 31st birthday on Friday.

"The Jerez circuit is one of my favourite tracks and I’ve got some good memories here, including my first p🉐odium foꦺr Ducati last year.

"I think it is the right circuit to begin to reverse the early season treꦰnd and it will be important to begin well on Friday and ♕see what the track surface is like with the new asphalt.

"We’re working hard and we must continue to think positiܫvely. I don’t intend to give♍ in.”

Lorenzo has been on the preᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚmier-class podium in eight of out ten races at Jerez, winning in 2010, in 2011 and in 2015.