Lorenzo Targets Sepang Podium

With only two races left in the 2008 season, most MotoGP riders promise to give a solid performance that could help them improve their position in the overall standing or save a disappointing season (Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner are two obvious exceptions, both of them securing their championship positions in the last Grands Prix). Jorge Lorenzo is just one of them, as the Spanish rider is hoping to reach the Sepang podium on Sunday. Similar to most riders out there, Lorenzo's main advantage is that he knows the circuit very well and, based on this information, he could easily create a competitive bike configuration.

"I'm looking forward to arriving in Malaysia and going to a quite a fast circuit, which I like and where most importantly we've tested already this year and things didn't go badly. We've scored decent results over the last four races so I'm optimistic going into the final two rounds of my rookie MotoGP season. We've got a couple of fourth places recently so now I'd like to get back on the podium,” Lorenzo told crash.net.

Yamaha's team manager admitted that experience gained in the past testing sessions could help them a lot this year and expressed his confidence that Lorenzo will get a good result in Malaysia.

"Malaysia is a track we already tested at three times in the winter - once at the end of 2007 and twice at the start of 2008. We have a base set-up, lots of information and Jorge knows how to ride the bike here. If you look at the results so far this season Michelin have done well at tracks where we have tested previously so I'm sure they will be competitive again,” Daniele Romagnoli said.

Lorenzo is fourth in the overall world championship standings with a total of 182 points and 27 points behind Dani Pedrosa of Repsol Honda Team. With 50 points still up for grabs, Lorenzo may reach the last place of the podium in case Dani Pedrosa doesn't get at least a top ten finish in one of the two races left.