MotoGP: Lorenzo breaks world speed record for Sepang
Tuesday, January 30, 2018 @ 1:28 PM
SPANISH twice-world champion MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo has just completed the fastest lap in the history of the sport during training sessions in Sepang, Malaysia.
The Ducati rider whipped round the circuit in less than two minutes – one minute, 58.83 seconds, in fact – the fastest anyone has ever gone around the Sepang track since it was built.
He has beaten the previous world record set by his compatriot, four-times champion Marc Márquez, 24, who belted round in one minute, 58.867 in 2015 – beating another Spaniard, Dani Pedrosa, who set an earlier record that same year of one minute, 59.053 seconds during a qualifier in Sepang which, naturally, netted him pole.
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