The man from Mallorca won last year in dramatic fashion, after title rivals Valentino Rossi and Dani Pedrosa both crashed out, giving the soft-spoken star one of his biggest career MotoGP wins. Expect Rossi and Pedrosa to once again be Jorge’s biggest challengers, as both have had class-leading speed since Indy’s inception in 2008. Fiat Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo leads the rest of the 17-rider MotoGP field into Indianapolis this weekend for the third running of the Indy U.S. Grand Prix. Lorenzo heads the field by 77 points as riders prepare to tackle the world famous yard of bricks, a track which has treated the Spaniard well in the past. Lorenzo has been the class of the field this year, bar none. With seven wins to his credit thus far and nothing less than a second-place finish all season, the young Yamaha rider has shown that he truly is the prince of MotoGP, pushing headfirst for King Rossi’s crown ever faster. He heads into Indianapolis in the best place a rider can be – fresh off of two consecutive wins, well rested and heading to a track he loves.
“The first back-to-back races in the second half of the season are coming, and this first one is after a few days of holiday in the U.S. for me,” said Lorenzo. “This weekend will be the second race in this country in 2010 and I am looking forward to it because I would like to repeat the same result as I got in Laguna! I have good memories from America, last month in Laguna and last year in Indy.”
2010 MotoGP Indianapolis Preview
