Lorenzo riding for Yamaha in this season's Sepang test
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Jorge Lorenzo will race at this season’s MotoGP Catalunya Grand Prix, seven months after announcing his retirement from motorcycle racing.
The three-time MotoGP champion will take Yamaha’s wildcard entry for the June 7 event, he announced in a video on his Instagram account.
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The 30-year old had said: “I’m done with it, I don’t want to race anymore,” at last year’s Valencia Grand Prix, following two serious crashes that had damaged his spine.
The three-times MotoGP world champion’s MotoGP retirement lasted all of 81 days. And now there’s talk of a race return in June. What exactly is going on?
He was released from his two-year Honda contract, without any restrictions on signing for other teams.
Eleven weeks later, he was announced as Yamaha’s test rider. When Yamaha secured a wildcard entry to the Catalunya race, the rumours of a Lorenzo comeback began.
Today, the team confirmed his involvement. “[Jorge Lorenzo] will be riding aboard the Yamaha YZR-M1 as a MotoGP Wild Card at the Catalunya GP,” it said in a Tweet.