The MotoGP championship enters its home stretch. There are only five deadlines left spread over two months. Aragon, this weekend, will be the fourteenth round of a season where there are already eight different winners. Not being among them when you are an official driver of a top team is a bit of a task. This is precisely the case for Andrea Dovizioso.
A situation which begins to weigh on the teammate of a Andrea Iannone which has already materialized by beating him at the Austrian Grand Prix. The question is asked more and more often when press conference : when will we see success in a year that has never offered so many opportunities? If Dovi doesn't succeed, he will be the one who remained dry among his peers, the one Ducati will have kept while the brand will have let slip the man who brought it its first realization since 2010 and a certain Casey Stoner.
The stakes are there and the challenge is real. For this weekend, it's even a challenge because between Aragon and Dovizioso, it was never true love. Last year, he left the spotlight to his partner to settle for fifth place. His best ranking on the Alcañiz side is a third position taken in 2012: “ Aragon is a really special route and completely different from that of Misano » explains the man who is sixth in the championship with 99 points. “ This year more than the others, it will be a leap into the unknown because of the tires. But it's a situation that is equivalent for all of us ».
On these two points, it will be recalled that the Aragon route runs counterclockwise while Michelin will bring an asymmetrical front tire. The official at Desmosedici continues: “ we arrive with an open mind and the idea of obtaining the best possible result. I didn't perform as expected in Misano and I wasn't able to fight for the podium. But we know we can be fast on almost any track. So we are going to give everything to make it the best weekend possible ».
Next to him, Andrea Iannone will begin his ordeal this Thursday by going to see the doctors to seek his discharge. Injured in the vertebrae since a fall during free practice at Misano which deprived him of the San Marino Grand Prix, Jo the Maniac is still uncertain.
