Before leaving for Argentina where he intends to shine again, Andrea Dovizioso received the Sky television channel at his home in Forli, Italy. The documentary will be shown this evening at 18:45 a.m. on channel 208 of the pay channel, but GPone has already seen a small preview of it.
As a result, the Italian site transcribed the following extracts and, among the many themes, Dovi commented on the Aprilia performance in Qatar: » Espargaró had a great race. In my opinion, Aleix was very good. However, I will not make any reasoning based on this year's Qatar. “
Could you have gone to Aprilia if you hadn't stayed at Ducati?
“No, not this year » replied the Italian pilot before making a little confidence,
« With Honda we were very close but a lot depended on Maverick's decision, and certainly on Suzuki's too. The reason I was close to Honda was because, in reality, they remembered the work I had done in the years we were together. Even if now I'm no longer the 21-year-old driver we can bank on for the future, they know what I can bring. “
The number 04 also evokes Valentino Rossi and admits not to have been surprised to have found him on the podium, quite the contrary: “I'm more surprised that it went poorly during testing. It was weird. There was too much difference between him and Maverick. He's a driver who, when things aren't going very well, after a while wants to go home, but I'm curious to see him in the next races because, anyway, I don't like him. I haven't seen it as well as last year. We will have to see in Argentina, Texas and Jerez to really understand if he can play the Championship with Maverick. »
A question which, in any case, does not extend to questioning the competitiveness of the Yamaha, whether official or painted in black and green, like those of Johann Zarco and Jonas Folger: « Yes, it's true that they made a new bike this year, and I don't know exactly the technical differences, but the fact that Jonas and Johann are going so hard, on all the tracks and during all the runs, is confirmation that the bike is balanced, the best it is at the moment. »
