Official: Jorge Lorenzo to race as Yamaha MotoGP wild-card

Yamaha has officially confirmed that retired five-time world champion Jorge Lorenzo will race as a wild-card at this yea♍r's Catalunya MotoGP.

It will be the Spaniard's first race on an🌳 M1 since his victorious Yamaha farewell at Valencia in 2016, after which he spen💫t two years at Ducati and then a nightmare injury-interrupted season at Repsol Honda.

After retiring as a full-time rider a🎐t Valenci꧒a last November, halfway through his planned HRC contract, Lorenzo returned to MotoGP action in his new role as a Yamaha test rider at Sepang in February.

Official: Jorge Lorenzo to race as Yamaha wild-card

Yamaha has officially confirmed that retired five-time world champion Jorge Lorenzo will race as a wild-card at this year's Catalunya MotoGP🍎.

ไIt will be the Spa💯niard's first race on an M1 since his victorious Yamaha farewell at Valencia in 2016, after which he spent two years at Ducati and then a nightmare injury-interrupted season at Repsol Honda.

After retiring as a full-time rider at Valencia last November, halfway through his planned HRC contract, Lorenzo returned to MotoGP action in his new role as a 🧜Yamaha test rider at Sepang in February.

But the 47-time MotoGP race winner will now join fellow M1 riders Val꧒entino Rossi, Maverick Vinales, Fabio Quartararo and Franco Morbidelli on the grid in Barcelona on June 5-7.

The Catalunya wild-card had been heavily rum🌺oured, with Yamaha Racing director Lin Jarvis previously stating it would make sense for Lorenzo to do a race at𒅌 a track where there would also be a Monday test...

A revised 2020 MotoGP calendar, fol♏lowing the cancellation of Qatar and postponemꦡent of Thailand, has been released today:

Latest 2020 MotoGP Calendar

Round

Date

Race

Circuit

1

8 March

Qatar* (no MotoGP class)

Losail International Circuit

2

5 April

Americas

Circuit of the Americas

3

19 April

Argentina

Termas de Rio Hondo

4

3 May

Jerez

Circuito de Jerez - Angel Nieto

5

17 May

France

Le Mans

6

31 May

Italy

Mugello

7

7 June

Catalunya

Circuit de Barcelona - Catalunya

8

21 June

Germany

Sachsenring

9

28 June

Netherlands

TT Circuit Assen

10

12 July

Finland**

KymiRing

11

9 August

Czech Republic

Brno

12

16 August

Austria

Red Bull Ring - Spielberg

13

30 August

Great Britain

Silverstone

14

13 September

San Marino

Misano

15

27 September

Aragon

MotorLand Aragon

16

4 October

Thailand

Chang International Circuit

17

18 October

Japan

Motegi

18

25 October

Australia

Phillip Island

19

1 November

Malaysia

Sepang

20

15 November

Valencia

Comunitat Valenciana - Ricardo Tormo

*Evening race.

**Subject to circuit homologation

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