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With just hours left before this year’s season kicks off, three-time MotoGP world champion and SEAT ambassador Jorge Lorenzo is making a final sprint in his training workouts. His recipe for going into the competition in top shape includes cycling, the gym and his SEAT Leon CUPRA. Jorge cycles up the Ordino-Arcalís mountain pass in Andorra twice a week to get himself used to performing at 170 beats per minute, the same heart rate needed to compete in a Grand Prix event. This is how Jorge Lorenzo prepares for the World Championship MotoGP.
Jorge Lorenzo, winner of 47 MotoGP races and the fifth most successful rider of all time, collected his new Urus S by participating in Lamborghini’s La Prima customer experience.On two wheels or four, few people know more about performance or control than the Spanish bike racing hero, Jorge Lorenzo. A five-time world champion in one of the world’s most thrilling sports, Majorcan-born Lorenzo won back-to-back 250cc world titles before moving to MotoGP in 2008. His career spanned 12 seasons in bike racing’s premier category, during which time he won three world championships in 2010, 2012 and 2015. In 2022, he was inducted into the MotoGP Hall of Fame, where he was officially anointed a ‘legend’.
Exhausted after thousands of kilometers behind the wheel of a historic car, almost dizzy from the effort while savoring the honeys of triumph, because reaching the finish line, even if it is reluctantly, is a victory.This is how Iván Vicario, one of the pilots of the SEAT 127, a journalist expert in historic cars who excited and grateful in equal parts, hugged each other endlessly celebrating the success of having reached the goal while veteran 127 was still snorting on the podium with an overheated engine and a good beating of kilometers. "I'm in a cloud," he told us with a huge smile and his eyes irritated by the long hours without sleep and the excitement of having completed a mythical rally such as Monte-Carlo. “I still don't believe it, but Jesus Bonilla and I have done it. It's hard to say how I feel. It has been very difficult and we have not stopped learning with every kilometer of the race. If I started again right now, I would be delighted, I think our result could improve a lot. Regularity Rallyes are not easy, but this is a very intense, very beautiful experience, so much so that I would dare to give the ten keys or advice that I would give to those who would like to sign up for the next year to run this rally.
Gradually the positions are stretched and it is the penalties and the complications of the test that are causing them to be delayed or have to stop to repair and therefore penalize. For the moment, the Historical SEATs remain in the race with an excellent pace, showing enviable reliability.The SEAT 127 piloted by Iván Vicario and Jesús Bonilla marches like a clock mechanically and the crew is increasingly taking advantage of the navigation instruments. They have won a dozen positions at this stage and move on.The SEAT 1430 piloted by Enrique Trillo and co-piloted by Carles Jimenez remains among the best in its class and also scales almost twenty positions. In addition, Trillo begins to take the “air” to the car and some of its crusades on the asphalt are already famous.For its part, the SEAT 1400 piloted by Mía Bardolet and Eloi Alsina continues to increase the pace and towards the end of the rally among the fifteen best classified. The SEAT 1400 is already one of the great protagonists of the test and there is a great expectation to see what happens on the mythical night of the Turini.
This historic “Monte” will be remembered for many things, as always for its hardness, for the best anecdote of the final winner and for many other reasons, but certainly not for the amount of snow on its route. Not at least for now, because there is not, which does not mean that the SEAT Historical team is prepared in case the snow or ice become protagonists.Mía Bardolet is enjoying the experience: it is her first Monte-Carlo and she never thought she would do it with a luxurious rear-wheel-drive saloon of just over a thousand kilos manufactured there by 1953. She does not feel disappointed at all, but in addition to much suffering they assured her a lot of snow ... "I have come very motivated and well prepared, including gloves, hat and shoes for extreme cold, but at the moment there is hardly any snow, although that is not why it seems like an easy rally," Bardolet explains. “For a rally driver to keep the whole test at a restricted average speed is not easy, but it is true that although the average speed is low, it is sometimes impossible to keep up because the roads are several kilometers with linked first-speed curves . So every now and then you have to run a lot. I have come well prepared and thanks to SEAT we could also do a test rally such as Andorra, in which I took the SEAT 1400 to the 7th place.
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