Can you imagine what can come out of a chat between four world champions and MotoGP legends? The result has been made a reality by DAZN with Four times, a new series of four episodes (which will be broadcast every Wednesday) in which four of the great legends of Spanish motorcycling meet: Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa, Álex Crivillé and Jorge Martínez ‘Aspar’. Despite the fact that two of them had time to live together on the asphalt, all the anecdotes were experienced from a different perspective, that is discovered through unpublished stories that they themselves recall from their years in active service.
They do it in a relaxed chat where the most pioneering of them, Aspar, He begins by revealing what he felt with the first of his four titles: “It is setting. It is not what you arrive and win. The first victory is important, but the first title is the one that tells you: ‘You really are here because you are good’. Alcira needed that certainty, to continue paving the way for Spanish motorcycling in a contest where Criville, broke barriers and went down in history as the first MotoGP champion for our country.
The Catalan also lived glory days during his time as a pilot, but unfortunately he had to live an early withdrawal “because I was not physically well.” “Each rider is different: some retire because they no longer have a competitive motorcycle, others because they have met their objectives…”, says Álex, through a story that can remind Jorge Lorenzo or Dani Pedrosa. In his case it was a natural process that was not at all like Crivillé’s goodbye: “I had dizziness and I had to leave it yes or yes. I went to Canada and they told me, ‘You can’t keep running.’ I even had a pre-contract signed with Yamaha and I said: ‘No, this is as far as it goes.’ I got up in the morning and said: ‘I can’t continue, I’m retiring’ and I announced the withdrawal”.
He did not focus so much on himself as on his rivalry with Rossi a Dani Pedrosa, who coincided with the Italian in the premier class and as three-time world champion (one in 125cc and two in 250cc). They competed with different strategies, since Valentino was not looking to “be the fastest”. “That was my mentality. His was not, his was: ‘I go out, and If I can stop it, I stop it”. You know exactly what you are talking about Jorge Lorenzo that was played with The doctor his last MotoGP title until the last race in 2015.
The Spaniard managed to prevail over the most successful pilot in the category with a talent, who was also helped by video games: “The first thing my father bought me, He bought it just so I could learn the circuits, because I was against him playing Play (Station). So, I would go to my mother’s house just to play Play. I would spend until 7 in the morning, because my father didn’t like me playing video games at all. But he bought me the Play in 2002 when I debuted ”.
