Andrea Dovizioso barely saved the furniture during qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix which will open the MotoGP season this Sunday on a Jerez track transformed into a cauldron. The Ducat official first barely got his ticket for Q2, a session during which he crashed. Fortunately, it was not serious for his collarbone, which was operated on on June 28. Meanwhile, the Pramac drivers were doing much better with their GP20…
Add to this a very special atmosphere at Ducati at the moment against the backdrop of a renewal of the contract far from being acquired with joy and joy and you will have a Andrea Dovizioso quite cold despite the ambient temperature at Jerez... " Congratulations to Pecco Bagnaia and Jack Miller » Dovi first commented. “ We are in a strange situation, the tires are special and we haven't fully understood them yet.. You have to continue to study and seek confidence ahead ».
« It was difficult for me today to be able to stay in the top positions, during FP3 and in qualifying he acknowledges. " Too bad, because I was hoping to be able to start from the first or second row, and instead we will start from the eighth position, the third row. We have a good race pace, but at the moment I'm still not completely satisfied with my feeling with the bike ».
“It’s not even clear what we should do”
« We are working on it and hope to improve in time for tomorrow. It will be important to be able to stay in the top places immediately and I am sure that we have the potential to have a good race ". Yes, but… " The problem is that many of us have the same rhythm, so I don't know where I might be tomorrow. I'm focusing on more safety at the front, I tried a lot of setups this weekend, normally I don't do it but we're still working on this bike. I'm driving differently than in 2019, there are a lot of changes to make and the race weekend is the only time we can make them ».
He finishes : " it's not so much a question of motorcycles as of tires, the new Michelins work differently and you have to adapt the way you brake, enter corners, release the brakes and open the accelerator. These are really small differences but it's not easy to change so many things, it's not even clear what we need to do, but we have a lot of data that helps us improve session after session. I'm not worried because the speed is there ».
His teammate Danilo Petrucci will start from fourteenth position, still feeling the effects of his fall during Wednesday's test. The season does not start strong for the officials Ducati...
MotoGP Jerez 1 J2: Q2 and Q1 times
