Reigning MotoGP World Champion Jorge Lorenzo has said he doesn't expect that he and fellow Spaniard Dani Pedrosa will have it all their own way in this year's championship with young gun Marc Marquez and old hand Valentino Rossi nipping at their heels.

Although Lorenzo was fastest overall at the recent Sepang test with Pedrosa in tow, rookie Marquez was less than four-tenths in arrears while Rossi, although in fifth, is never to be discounted.

"Over the six days at Sepang, Dani and I were the top two riders. At the same time, Márquez and Valentino were both really, really close. Having said that, that was just one track so we’ll have to see what happens on circuits with different characteristics because every track is a different world," said Lorenzo."