Between Andrea Dovizioso and Ducati, we will enter the sensitive period of contract renewal. Between the driver and the brand, it is a special relationship that has been woven over the seasons, made up of common interests, a certain interdependence, but also criticism, reproaches, dissatisfaction, even mutual misunderstandings. Who needs the other the most and to what extent will be the unknowns of a complex equation whose variable will be the new economic situation. You will have to be rational and pragmatic to conclude. Human factors that we rightly attribute to Dovi. Maybe a little too much...
It is both a personal quality but also a fault that Ducati likes to emphasize on occasion. Andrea Dovizioso don't do things by chance. He calculates and synthesizes before being instinctive. However, the Italian wants to soften this reputation for coldness. In an interview with Corriere della Sera, he specifies as follows: “ I have a label, I am seen as a driver who does not use instinct. It's true that I'm very rational but to get to this level, maintain it, improve my instinct is necessary. With only rationality you are limited »
“Pilots need fear”
We must therefore transcend ourselves, with a pitiless safeguard: fear: “ I am often afraid and we pilots need it, otherwise you would go too far, you have to be good at handling it. » He ends his remarks by remembering one of his best achievements… “ Each victory has a special meaning. Logically Mugello in 2017 is special as an Italian on a Ducati. The sensations of the last corner give you more adrenaline but maybe the victory in which I was impeccable was in Misano in 2018, I had a perfect race. » But that goes in the direction of the reputation that we give him…
