Jorge Lorenzo has 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:confiꦇrmed rumours that he is speaking to Aprilia about a MotoGP test riding role in 2021.

But the retired triple MotoGP cha𓂃mpion insists it is currently only a 'Plan B' and that his 'first option' is to continue as a test rider for ♌Yamaha, the factory with which he won his premier-class titles, despite only making two test appearances this year.

"I want to continue as a test rider and my first option is still Yamaha," Lorenzo told . "Because I have won with them and I feel very good on🔯 the bike, but there are other options as well… The other option is Aprilia, y💮es."

Dou🐠bts have been cast on the continuation of the Lorenzo-Yamaha testing partnership given his rare track appearances, use of 2019-spec bikes and lack of competitive lap times ♎during the recent Portimao test.

But the Spaniard explained the P💙ortuguese outing, the first t🍎ime Lorenzo had been on a bike since Sepang in February, had come as a last-minute surprise:

"The reality is that I only did two days o𒉰f testing in Sepang... And recently I had a day and a half in Portimao.

"In June, when we were in 'full Covid' [lockdown], I was informed from Yamaha that there would surely be no more tests [this year] so ꦜI lowered my training pace…

"[Then Yamaha] told me that there was𒊎 this test in Portimao and I started training as best I could. There was little time left and I did not arrive in the best shape, and above all I had not gotten on a MꦜotoGP bike for eight months, which is a super extreme motorcycle.

"You lose your rhythm, your reflexes, your reaction time and to get all that back you need a few days of acclimatisation - 🌊whether your name❀ is Lorenzo, Rossi or Marquez.

"If you add to that a circuit as difficult andꦓ strange as Portimao, with a team [put together] at the last minute, plus an old [2019] motorcycle, i🎉t is difficult to be competitive."

Lorenzo feels a trueꦚ reflection of his pace rema𓆏ins the 1.3s gap to the best of the MotoGP race riders seen at Sepang.

"And that was without being able to mount the last soft tyre because it started to rain. Riding the soft would have made me stay half-a-seconꦉd or seven-tenths off first," Lorౠenzo said.

"I would like to continue, but if Yamaha decides not to count on me it will be a real shame for both parties. Honestly, I think it will be impossible for them to find  [another] rider who adapts so naturally to the style that Yamaha requ💫ires and has the same sensitivity to detect the right direction for the evolution of each piece."

On the other hand, the #99 confirmed the attraction in join♔ing back-of-the grid Aprilia would be to try and bring the project to new heights, as former rival Dani Pedrosa has done at KTM, aဣnd "complete a circle" that began when he raced for Piaggio's Derbi/Aprilia brands in 125 and 250.

Lorenzo would also like to help coach fellow Lugano resistant An⛄drea Iannone, if the Italian is able to race for Aprilia next season, pending the outcome of his CAS appeal, and didn't rule out wild-cards (as had been plannജed for Yamaha this season, prior to Covid).

Current Aprilia test rider Bradley Smith has been dropped as a replacement for Iannone for t🔴he ♒final three rounds, a surprise decision that many believe also points towards the Englishman being replaced as the fa⛎ctory's main test rider in 2021.

Should Lorenzo lཧeave Yamaha, Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso is a rumoured alternative, although the Italian is also being linked with a Honda test deal.