This has been announced and it is rare enough to be underlined: In the middle of the season, between two Grands Prix, a favorite for the MotoGP title will go for an official race in a car, in the middle of a pack of furious people handling powerful cars, since it will be in DTM. Something made possible for Andrea Dovizioso which thus benefits from the close relationship between Audi and Ducati. The RS5 of the one who will seek victory this weekend at Mugello which hosts the Italian Grand Prix will still remind him of where he comes from on the doors...
He does not take it lightly and he has done a serious test to show himself to be up to the challenge that awaits him. Andrea Dovizioso will embark next weekend in a DTM race at Misano. A good publicity stunt for the motorsport category managed by the former Formula 1 driver, Gerhard Berger.
But the latter still hoped for a little more. He asserts in fact that he was not far from also bringing a certain Valentino Rossi who would then have driven a BMW… Gone? “ We were close. It would have been great to have the two best Italian MotoGP riders on the same occasion. We talked a lot with Rossi's management, but he is too focused on what he is doing now. He must have said no after thinking about it » commented Berger. So the Doctor is “too focused on what he’s doing”? But is DesmoDovi any less so? …
