Jorge Lorenzo hid a cryosauna in his motorhome throughout his 2015 MotoGP title bid and revealed he saved it a “secret” from Valentino Rossi “to achieve a aggressive benefit”.
Former Yamaha teammates and arch-rivals, Lorenzo and Rossi had many fierce battles all through their careers.
However no season was as controversial because the 2015 season. Lorenzo received his third MotoGP title following allegations of collusion between Rossi and Marc Marquez.
The aftermath of that season continues to resonate within the paddock, with the episode making headlines once more this 12 months, marking its tenth anniversary.
discuss to Motoit, Lorenzo revealed an attention-grabbing secret he had been hiding from Rossi through the 2015 marketing campaign, however that proved troublesome as each riders’ campers had been typically positioned subsequent to one another within the paddock.
“I’ve invested so much in my sport,” he started.
“Let me provide you with an instance as an example my degree of obsession. I purchased a camper that, not like different customary campers, may very well be disassembled to my liking. I may put it again collectively otherwise if I needed.”
“I arrange a cryosauna indoors and put myself at -180 levels Celsius for 3 minutes to get better after every session.
“We needed to discover a place to supply hydrogen in every city, very near the circuit. My assistants needed to journey as much as 100km to get it. I did this in 2015.”
“They all the time parked their Valentino camper subsequent to me and I needed to maintain it a secret.
“I instructed my assistant to place it out of sight.
“He needed to set up the hydrogen in order that nobody may see it, not even Valentino’s assistants.
“I did not need anybody to know, not even my supervisor, however this was all simply to maintain it secret and provides me a aggressive benefit.
“I introduced medical doctors, bodily therapists, all the pieces.
“I did all the pieces and invested all the pieces to get stronger daily.”
The backlash from the 2015 season and Yamaha’s muted response to Lorenzo’s world title finally led to the Spaniard leaving for Ducati in 2017.
He retired from MotoGP on the finish of 2019 after struggling an harm at Honda’s manufacturing facility.
Lorenzo will take a extra lively function within the paddock subsequent 12 months as he’ll function Maverick Vinales’ rider coach.
