Jorge Lorenzo has hailed the 'huge' number of titles achieved by Repsol Honda team-mate Marc Marquez🐻, who now stands on the verge of winning his eighth ꦕworld championship.

Lorenzo was Spain's most successful premier-class🦋 rider prior to M🌺arquez, his third title for Yamaha in 2015 also being the only defeat Marquez has suffered since his MotoGP debut.

This year's switch from Ducati to join Marquez at Honda hasn't delivered anything like the 'dream team' scenario predicted. But while Lore♏nzo has struggled with injuries and a lack of feel from the RCV, Marquez has won 8 of 14 races and needs to outscore lone remaining rival Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati) by just two points to wrap up the title on Sunday in Buriram.

"I'm happy for him, that he♋'s very close to achieving his eighth world champion꧋ship," Lorenzo said.

"It's huge, so many world titles. But he completely deserves all these titles because of his talent, his speed, the risk his takes and the🤡 work he does, in my opinion."

Regarding his own prospects for this weekend, Lorenzo's first priority will b🐟e to make it safely through Friday after being injured due to a technical fault on his Ducati a year ago ✱in Thailand.

Lorenzo's current 🥃injuries in the form of back fractures from Assen are still improving 'every day': "൲As I am more comfortable and having less pain, I am able to push more and hopefully this will help my speed on the bike."

As well as bett♌er physical shape, t൲he #99 will have a revised set-up to try this weekend as he seeks to improve on a best result of just 14th since his injury comeback.

"The bike itself cannot change for the moment - the engine, the chassis or the elec🐈tronic we don’t have any new parts," he said.

"But we have some ideas🀅 to change the setting to solve a little bit the problems that we have in the last couple of races about the traction at the end of the race.

"We lose so much grip from the rear tyre and probably we 💮will need to sacrifice a little bit of front stability to gain rear grip💃 to lose so much in the second part of the race.

"So let's try this way and let💖's see hoಌw it works."