As the chequered flag waved in qualifying, Jorge Lorenzo was staring at an eighth place start in Sunday's Indianapolis MotoGP. But Lorenzo made his last lap count and vaulted onto the front row in third, behind the Repsol Honda's of Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa, while team-mate and title rival Valentino Rossi was left to inherit the unwelcome eighth place. “I was in eighth place, so it was a dangerous moment and I had a lot of pressure to make the last lap in the best way possible. As precise and as perfect as I could,” Lorenzo said. “I did, so I was proud of it and it saved me a big moment, because to start in the third or fourth row is always a big problem at the beginning of the...
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