Movistar Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo claimed a stunning fifth win of the 2015 MotoGP season at Brno, Czech Republic, last weekend, moving into the points lead – tied with teammate Valentino Rossi – for the first time this year.

Lorenzo has finished inside the top three of the championship every year since 2009, clinching the title in 2010 and 2012 to go alongside his 2006-2007 250cc Grand Prix World Championship wins.

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The first premier class title came in 2010 during the 800cc era at Malaysia with three rounds to spare, finally able to shake off the ‘inconsistent’ tag by scoring podium finishes in the first 12 races of the season and winning seven of them in the process. In total he won nine races.

Lorenzo scored pole on six occasions that season and qualified on the front row of the grid for every race except one. At 23, he became only the second world champion from Spain in the premier class after Alex Criville.

After finishing second to Australian Casey Stoner in 2011, Lorenzo regained the crown come 2012 at Phillip Island. He became the first Spanish rider to win the premier class title more than once, after coming second and securing an insurmountable 43-point cushion with one race left.

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With the switch to 1000cc at the start of 2012, Lorenzo and his YZR-M1 made a terrific start by winning the opening round in Qatar after a hard-fought battle with the Repsol Hondas. From that point on he went on to take five further wins and 10 second places, only once failing to finish a race after being taken out by Alvaro Bautista at Assen.

The race at Phillip Island proved a dramatic one as his main rival Dani Pedrosa crashed out early on, with Lorenzo needing only a three-point finish or more to clinch the title, which he achieved with the runner-up.

In 2013 Lorenzo finished second in the standings and third last year in 2014, however this year he has been back at his incredible best, closing in on Rossi following a slow start to the season with wins at Jerez, Le Mans, Mugello, Catalunya and last weekend at Brno. Now’s time to push reset and do battle across the final seven rounds.