Jorge Lorenzo's return to Yamaha this season made the five-time world champion the most highly qualified test rider of the MotoGP era. Check out the Crash MotoGP YouTube channel - CLICK HERE But so far he's only taken part in two tests, at Sepang in February and then - after disruption caused by the Covid pandemic, which also erased his Catalunya wild-card - this week in Portimao. Both were on the 2019-spec M1. While Lorenzo was only 1.3s from fastest man Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha) at Sepang, the gap had grown to 3.0s behind Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia) at Portimao. It would have been even bigger if race riders other than Aprilia had been able to use MotoGP machines (rather than street bikes)...
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