Honda does not know how long Lorenzo will have to adapt to MotoGP

Alberto Puig, MotoGP Honda boss, says that he does not know how long it will take for Jorge Lorenzo to adapt next season when he passes at Ducati.

Lorenzo will join Honda after two seasons at Ducati, with whom he signed his first MotoGP campaign without a win last year while he was struggling to acclimate to Desmosedici. after nine years with Yamaha.

The 2010 MotoGP champion, 12 and 15 finally won his first win last month at Mugello. with a second success in Barcelona – although the brand has already decided to replace him by Danilo Petrucci before these victories.

While Puig says that Lorenzo's record suggests that he has the "potential" to recreate his recent "Honda has three MotoGP titles, we believe that it has the potential to make good results with our bike, "said Puig. "But you never know how a driver can adapt to a machine – sometimes it's easy, sometimes not.It took him a long time to understand the Ducati. he understood, he won two races in a row.

"We are waiting for it to be fast, how fast, we do not know, when will it be fast, we do not know it We believe with his potential and his racing career, he does not come to Honda [just] to stay on track. "

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" The two [Lorenzo and Pedrosa] of some mani era are smooth, "said Puig," Lorenzo has speed in the bend, when he has the feeling, and Dani is able to turn and pick up the bike. 19659016] "Having different riders is very interesting on our side because you can develop machines, they can learn, try to see different paths."

Engineers learn from pilots, so let's see what Lorenzo brings to Honda. "