After winning two victories in a row at Silverstone and Assen, Fiat Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo will be arriving in his home city of Barcelona for Round 7 of the 2010 MotoGP Championship. With a 47-point lead in the series and the chance to please his home fans, Lorenzo will be aiming for total domination on home soil. Lorenzo will be joined by two-time Japanese Superbike Champion Wataru Yoshikawa, who is filling in on the Fiat Yamaha team for the injured Valentino Rossi. Last year it was Rossi who upset Lorenzo in front of his home crowd at Catalunya. The FIat Yamaha duo became tangled in a last-lap battle for the lead, and Rossi would go on to say that his victory over Lorenzo at Catalunya was one of his best ever wins. This year the action will be much different, however, with Rossi out of the picture still rehabbing his broken leg. After earning a win in the first Spanish round at Jerez, Lorenzo's motivation will have to be securing his second '10 Spanish GP victory, having taken the checkers at Jerez earlier this year. "Montmelo is a very special track for me,” said Lorenzo. “it is the closest to Mallorca and I can feel the people supporting me. Last year I lost at the final corner but now I will try to come back to the podium to celebrate with all my fans. We have a big gap in the standings and it gives us confidence and allows us to be calm, but the team will be working at the same level, I am sure. We still have twelve more races, double what we've already had! We should enjoy Montmelo and then, after these three consecutive races, we have earned a little break - a week for a rest!" Lorenzo’s closest rival will be that of Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa. With a second-place finish at Assen after his lackluster eighth-place finish in Great Britain, Pedrosa also returns to his home track, where he won in 2008. At Assen Pedrosa set a new circuit record, and although the team hasn’t had much time to recover they are in top form and in good sprits.
