Jorge Lorenzo has confirmed his current MotoGP crew chief, Cristian Gabarrini, will not move across with him from Ducati to Honda next year. Speaking in Assen ahead of this weekend's Dutch TT, Lorenzo said that he will have a new chief mechanic in 2019 when he joins the factory Honda team, one that will be decided by the Japanese marque. "It's not something that depends on me, whether [Gabarrini] can accompany me," he said. "Next year I won't have the power to decide that I had in other seasons, it will be a question for [Honda]." Lorenzo's comments come amid a backdrop of numerous likely MotoGP crew chief movements, now that the 2019 rider market is all but settled....
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