Factory Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo has spoken about the second MotoGP free practice crash that has left him with a broken collarbone and facing a layoff from racing.
The Spaniard, who will be moved from an Assen Hospital to his Barcelona home tomorrow, believes he was too confident in the wet conditions and went into the Hog Heide corner too fast and touched a puddle.
“I think I was too confident, at the moment of the crash I was very fast and felt very strong, but maybe the conditions weren’t the perfect ones to have this high confidence. I entered the corner faster than the previous lap and I think touched a patch of water, or maybe aquaplaned which made the rear wheel light and touch onto the white line, making it a lot worse which is why I crashed," said Lorenzo.
"I flew and when I hit the ground I broke my collarbone. I don't have anything negative with this circuit, just bad luck or in this case, too much confidence. You must always be optimistic, things could be worse and I will try to recover as soon as possible.”