This Spanish Grand Prix is a new deadline for Andrea Dovizioso who nevertheless denies having the pressure of results in his journey with Yamaha. We will therefore give the Iwata brand the benefit of the doubt which, however, does not apply with his RNF team whose executives have been demanding a top 10 from him since his return to Europe from the paddock. Will he finally achieve this objective? while Fabio Quartararo, with the same bike as his, is leading the championship. The Italian himself has reservations…
On paper, however, there would be reason to be optimistic since, last weekend, Andrea Dovizioso brought back from Portimao his best result ever recorded on the Yamaha since his return to MotoGP. Or eleventh place. But Wilco Zeelenberg, RNF team manager, calms the effusions that could exude from such a performance: “ Andrea finished 11th in Portimão, but the gap to the top was too big. He needs to improve in the first half of the race and we hope he can do that in Jerez. We have already tested on this track in winter, but actually everyone likes this track ", did he declare.
The boss Razlan Razali recalls the imperatives of the championship, which position him against Yamaha who has still not renewed his contract, dubbing him as his satellite team… “ Jerez has traditionally been a good track for Yamaha and this is another track in Europe where everyone will be fast. We want to continue our progress with Andrea. Our goal is to finish in the top 10 and be competitive “, underlined the Malaysian.
His team is only 11th in the world team championship with 14 points. “ As a team we are a few points behind and we want to score as many as possible so that we can improve our position in the championship ", remember Razali.
Andrea Dovizioso: “ Jerez is not the best track for me«
Et Andrea Dovizioso, what does he say about it? He does not arouse enthusiasm by assessing his chances thus: “ Jerez is not the best track for me but I expect to be able to make decent progress. I think the bike works very well at Jerez “, declared “Dovi” before this sixth Grand Prix of the season.
« It's good that after Portimão we arrive directly in Jerez because my pace was not particularly high in Portugal. At least my feeling at the end of the race was a little better. It will be very important to progress because we want to move up to the middle of the group and we need to improve our starting position », specified the satellite pilot Yamaha . " A better position on the starting grid will have a significant impact on the race ».
The Italian scored 5 points in the World Championship, but his WithU Yamaha RNF team demands more from its rider 36 years old who is only 20th in the championship after five races out of the 21 still scheduled.
