He struggled at Ducati in his first season, getting only three podiums, and finished 7th in the championship in, while his teammate and former 250cc rival Andrea Dovizioso fought for the championship until the final round in Valencia.
In the subsequent season in, Lorenzo regained form with three victories in Mugello, Catalunya and Austria and a further 2nd place in Brno.
A move to Repsol Honda in proved to be ill-fated, and Lorenzo retired at the end of the season.
1947
With 47 premier class wins, Lorenzo is 5th in the all-time list of premier class race winners.
In 2022, Lorenzo was inducted into the MotoGP Hall of Fame as an official Legend by the FIM.
Despite his retirement from riding, Lorenzo remains active in motorsports, competing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Italia with Q8 Hi Perform.
1987
Jorge Lorenzo Guerrero (born 4 May 1987) is a Spanish former professional motorcycle racer.
He is a five-time World Champion, with three MotoGP World Championships (, and ) and two 250cc World Championships ( and ).
2002
Lorenzo made his championship debut on his fifteenth birthday, on the second qualifying day for the 2002 125cc Spanish Grand Prix, after having missed Friday practice, due to not being old enough to race (minimum age regulations).
2006
After winning the 2006 and 2007 250 cc World Championships, Lorenzo moved to MotoGP in 2008 with the factory Yamaha team.
In his first season, he won rookie of the year honours after finishing 4th place in the championship, including a win at Portugal.
2007
Lorenzo dominated the 2007 250cc World Championship.
His nine pole positions led to nine victories in 2007.
Lorenzo's victory at Misano in 2007 was his 16th in the 250cc class, making him the most successful Spanish rider of all time in the intermediate class – with one more victory than Dani Pedrosa and Sito Pons.
After being linked with a Yamaha MotoGP ride for 2008, on 25 July 2007 he was confirmed as Valentino Rossi's partner on a two-year deal for the 2008 MotoGP season.
Lorenzo made a great start to his MotoGP career, finishing 2nd after qualifying on pole for the Qatar night race.
He followed this up with pole at the second round in Jerez, Spain and 3rd Position, and pole in round 3 at Estoril, Portugal.
He converted this pole into a victory, his maiden win in the Premier Class.
In doing so, he became the youngest rider in MotoGP to finish on the podium in his first three races, taking the record from compatriot and rival Dani Pedrosa by a single day.
2008
The nine seasons he spent with Yamaha from 2008 to 2016 proved to be very successful, as he won the championship on three occasions in, and , finishing as championship runner-up in , and.
By this stage of the Championship, Lorenzo was in joint first place with Pedrosa, but on 1 May 2008 Lorenzo was thrown from his bike during practice for the MotoGP Grand Prix of China.
Lorenzo suffered a chipped bone and snapped ligament in his left ankle, and a fractured bone in his right.
He was still able to finish the race in 4th place.
Two weeks later at Le Mans, Lorenzo suffered two accidents in the practice sessions but managed to post a 2nd-place result.
In the following race at Mugello, he crashed during the race after qualifying seventh on the grid, The next week in Barcelona, he experienced his fifth crash in four meetings, the practice session accident forcing him to miss the race.
At both Donington Park and Assen, he was observed to be riding more conservatively after a series of injuries, but moved up the order in the later part of the race to finish 6th in each case.
He has commented that he is stronger in the latter parts of races, preferring the bike when it is low on fuel.
In the next meeting at Sachsenring, however, Lorenzo crashed out of the race during very wet conditions.
Lorenzo suffered yet more injuries to his feet at the USGP at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on 20 July, when he experienced his seventh crash in only three months.
During the first lap a spectacular highside left Lorenzo with a sore right foot (or ankle) and three broken bones in his left foot, specifically the third, fourth and fifth metatarsals.
At Misano, Lorenzo clinched 2nd place.
Indianapolis saw him on the podium again, this time in third position.
He eventually finished the season in 4th position.
2009
In 2009, Lorenzo stayed with Yamaha.
His season started well, with two wins – at Motegi and Le Mans – and two more podiums out of five races, leading the championship up until that point after which Valentino Rossi stole the momentum from him in the Catalan Grand Prix.
As a consequence of a crash in qualifying at the Laguna Seca round, Lorenzo suffered a small fracture in the head of the fourth metatarsal in his right foot, contusions to the bones in both ankles and damage to his collarbone in his right shoulder.
Two crashes later in the season, during the rain hit British Grand Prix and at Brno hampered his title bid, as he was 50 points behind championship leader Valentino Rossi prompting Lorenzo to claim his chances of winning the title have gone.
He won at Indianapolis, while both Rossi and Pedrosa crashed, reducing Lorenzo's gap to Rossi to 25 points.
2013
His win tally of eight in the 2013 MotoGP season remains the most by any rider in the premier class in a single season not to win the title, as he finished just four points behind Marc Marquez in the final standings.
