At Ducati, the faces were far from happy as they completed this last test of the off-season in Qatar. This before launching, in ten days, into the fray of the 2019 MotoGP campaign. It will be on the same site for a Qatar Grand Prix including the leader of the reds Dovizioso doesn't know which way to go. The terrain is generally favorable to the Desmosedici, so that we expected much better than a fifteenth place for the double vice-world champion at the time of the assessment of the final evening...
Andrea Dovizioso he himself recognized as much: “ this is not the best way to end the tests ". The Italian admitted to being a little disappointed: “ I lost all feeling, doubts emerged to which we have no answer. But we have gathered a lot of data and information: I'm not too worried. Everyone seems to be going strong, but it will be different in classe ”.
« It was definitely not a good day and I was hoping to finish better. Unfortunately, it was very windy, we could not complete the planned work, we arrived late for the 20-lap simulation carried out with Danilo Petrucci, which we spoiled a little. I don't finish the test with the best feeling, but I don't want to worry. We need to analyze the data well, we have a lot of information to study » comments Dovi.
« It was a bit strange for three days: I'm not very happy to end like this. I didn't do my best in the last session, but we did a lot of laps and different simulations, we're not even that far ».
And his doubts also occupy his mind when evaluating the competition: “ I can't understand it. Everyone seems to have improved and even the beginners are very fast, at least on the timed lap. All the bikes seem competitive, Ducati is in the mix so I don't think the ranking here is real ».
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MotoGP, Qatar J3 test: times
| 1 | 12 | Maverick Vinales | Yamaha M1 | 1:54.208 | ||
| 2 | 20 | fabio quartararo | Yamaha M1 | 1:54.441 | 0.233 | 0.233 |
| 3 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Honda RC213V | 1:54.613 | 0.405 | 0.172 |
| 4 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha M1 | 1:54.651 | 0.443 | 0.038 |
| 5 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Honda RC213V | 1:54.653 | 0.445 | 0.002 |
| 6 | 21 | Franco Morbidelli | Yamaha M1 | 1:54.660 | 0.452 | 0.007 |
| 7 | 44 | Pol Espargaro | KTM RC16 | 1:54.770 | 0.562 | 0.110 |
| 8 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Honda RC213V | 1:54.789 | 0.581 | 0.019 |
| 9 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Ducati GP19 | 1:54.818 | 0.610 | 0.029 |
| 10 | 43 | Jack Miller | Ducati GP19 | 1:54.851 | 0.643 | 0.033 |
| 11 | 42 | Alex Rins | Suzuki GSX-RR | 1:54.852 | 0.644 | 0.001 |
| 12 | 36 | Joan mir | Suzuki GSX-RR | 1:54.997 | 0.789 | 0.145 |
| 13 | 63 | Francis Bagnaia | Ducati GP18 | 1:55.074 | 0.866 | 0.077 |
| 14 | 53 | Tito Rabat | Ducati GP18 | 1:55.229 | 1.021 | 0.155 |
| 15 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati GP19 | 1:55.233 | 1.025 | 0.004 |
| 16 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Aprilia RS-GP | 1:55.343 | 1.135 | 0.110 |
| 17 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Honda RC213V | 1:55.690 | 1.482 | 0.347 |
| 18 | 88 | Miguel Oliveira | KTM RC16 | 1:55.773 | 1.565 | 0.083 |
| 19 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Aprilia RS-GP | 1:55.814 | 1.606 | 0.041 |
| 20 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Aprilia RS-GP | 1:56.072 | 1.864 | 0.258 |
| 21 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Ducati GP18 | 1:56.121 | 1.913 | 0.049 |
| 22 | 5 | Johann zarco | KTM RC16 | 1:56.162 | 1.954 | 0.041 |
| 23 | 55 | Hafiz Syahrin | KTM RC16 | 1:56.371 | 2.163 | 0.209 |
