The Ducati rider arrived in Austria after being on the podium last weekend, which made him approach this new meeting in a positive way, and his results were reflected today.
After his two consecutive victories at Mugello and Barcelona which caused a lot of talk, Jorge Lorenzo fell back into line a little at Assen and at the Sachsenring by downshifting at the end of the race to finish seventh and sixth, as had often happened to him at the start of the season.
Returning from vacation relaxed and motivated, he had a very good weekend in Brno last week, and concluded it with a podium, enough to be calm to face one of the strong Ducati Grands Prix, Austria . Indeed, the Italian brand has achieved excellent results in recent years, and Lorenzo wants to continue this momentum.
At the end of this first day, the Spanish driver is second behind his teammate thanks to his good performance in FP1. The times did not improve this afternoon due to the rain, but he still finished at the top of the rankings with fourth place, which indicates good things for tomorrow. Lorenzo was also satisfied: “Today we couldn't draw many conclusions for the race, but during the few laps we did, we were always among the fastest and were competitive both this morning in the dry and this afternoon. -noon with rain. Having finished the day in second position behind Andrea bodes well, but we will have to try to improve further, especially in braking, and so I hope that the weather conditions will allow us to work on this aspect tomorrow. In any case we got off to a good start this weekend. »
Austrian Grand Prix Red Bull Ring MotoGP J.1: FP1 times.
1 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO Ducati 1'23.830
2 99 Jorge LORENZO Ducati 1'24.045 0.215 0.215
3 9 Danilo PETRUCCI Ducati 1'24.320 0.490 0.275
4 93 Marc MARQUEZ Honda 1'24.411 0.581 0.091
5 29 Andrea IANNONE Suzuki 1'24.436 0.606 0.025
6 26 Dani PEDROSA Honda 1'24.474 0.644 0.038
7 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW Honda 1'24.491 0.661 0.017
8 53 Tito RABAT Ducati 1'24.676 0.846 0.185
9 5 Johann ZARCO Yamaha 1'24.767 0.937 0.091
10 25 Maverick VIÑALES Yamaha 1'24.835 1.005 0.068
11 46 Valentino ROSSI Yamaha 1'24.884 1.054 0.049
12 41 Aleix ESPARGARO Aprilia 1'24.904 1.074 0.020
13 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA Ducati 1'24.938 1.108 0.034
14 42 Alex RINS Suzuki 1'24.939 1.109 0.001
15 38 Bradley SMITH KTM 1'24.973 1.143 0.034
16 30 Takaaki NAKAGAMI Honda 1'25.011 1.181 0.038
17 21 Franco MORBIDELLI Honda 1'25.107 1.277 0.096
18 43 Jack MILLER Ducati 1'25.184 1.354 0.077
19 45 Scott REDDING Aprilia 1'25.354 1.524 0.170
20 17 Karel ABRAHAM Ducati 1'25.541 1.711 0.187
21 55 Hafizh SYAHRIN Yamaha 1'25.594 1.764 0.053
22 10 Xavier SIMEON Ducati 1'25.752 1.922 0.158
23 12 Thomas LUTHI Honda 1'25.979 2.149 0.227
