[kropotkin thinks...] - MotoGP Silly Season's First Crazy Rumor: Lorenzo Agrees Preco

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MotoGP silly season this year is expected to be pretty frenetic, with just about all of the riders either out of contract or with escape clauses written into their contracts allowing them to leave at the end of 2014. But even by those standards, the first shot in the battle sounds like madness. According to a report on the Spanish radio station Onda Cero, Ducati have tempted Jorge Lorenzo into agreeing to a precontract to race for the Italian factory from 2015 onwards.

According to the report, Ducati Corse's new boss Gigi Dall'Igna phoned Jorge Lorenzo personally to persuade him to sign for the Italian factory. The contract on offer is reported to be tempting: Onda Cero claim that Ducati offered Lorenzo 15 million euros a season to race for them. Lorenzo is reported to be racing for 9 million a year with Yamaha, plus a 2 million euro bonus if he wins the championship. Both Honda and Yamaha are claimed to have offered Lorenzo 12 million euros a year for 2014, in an attempt to tempt the MotoGP champion of 2010 and 2012 to ride for them.

Source:
http://www.ondacero.es/audios-online/al-primer-toque/noticias/lorenzo-du...




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