Andrea Dovizioso continues with a negative streak in this 2022 MotoGP season. The Yamaha M1 requires another riding style.
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Andrea Dovizioso suffers another disappointing result at the French Grand Prix at Le Mans. The veteran of the MotoGP category finished 16th, 38 seconds behind the winner, confirming after seven races this year that it will be difficult for him to establish a feeling with the M1. Behind him, we only find his teammate Darryn binder, while everyone else fell before the finish line. “I expected a lot more from this weekend. I am very disappointed but this only confirms that the way I ride this bike does not correspond to the way I should ride it. For now I can't change this, I'm really sorry and disappointed. We go to Mugello and see what we can do ».
Andrea Dovizioso will not be able to do more if some of the changes requested since the first releases of last season do not arrive from Iwata. On a track that is not very favorable to the Yamahas, like Mugello, it will be even more difficult to try to obtain a good result. In France, fabio quartararo, reference of the Japanese team, lost only 4 seconds on the winner. Once again in the post-race debriefing he can only repeat the same concepts expressed for months: “ you have to ride this bike a certain way, otherwise it doesn't work ". The three-time MotoGP runner-up tries to change his style without success. “ If you look at all my years in MotoGP, I've never ridden like that, no matter what bike I've had. And I was always fast in my own way. Of course you try to adapt a little, but you never change your driving style ».
Dovizioso: “ where Fabio struggles, we lose a lot. And where he is particularly strong, we cannot do like him«
During the 2012 season, Andrea Dovizioso finished fourth in the standings with the Tech3 Yamaha M1 team. It was certainly a very different bike, the 2022 prototype requires very extreme riding rather than alone Quarterly can put into practice. At Le Mans too, the French driver had difficulty keeping up with the best: “ where Fabio struggles, we lose a lot. And where he is particularly strong, we cannot do like him. If we add it up, we get the gap and we have to multiply it each round… We also end up physically exhausting ourselves because we're trying to do something that doesn't work. It doesn't work and with each turn the gap widens, that's the truth ».
Yamaha finds himself somewhat in the situation of Honda, with a motorbike that alone Marc Marquez knows how to lead to the maximum. A much more obvious phenomenon until 2020, when the evolution of the RC213V followed a different evolution in its absence. “ I don't know if Yamaha deliberately decided to come to this point on purpose or if this situation happened on its own. ", concluded Andrea Dovizioso. " At Honda, I think it was a decision to go in that direction. But the situation at Yamaha is now similar to that of Honda, because only a rider can exploit the potential of the bike ».
MotoGP France Le Mans: classification
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