Andrea Dovizioso qualified in twelfth place for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, and will line up on row 4 for Sunday’s twelfth round of the 2015 MotoGP World Championship at the fast Northamptonshire circuit.
In the morning’s FP3 session, Dovizioso put in a good performance to finish third, just five-tenths of a second from the top.
Following the afternoon’s pre-qualifying FP4, which saw Dovizioso sixth, he then took to the track for the decisive 15-minute Q2 qualifying, but he was unable to repeat the same good form as he had shown in the previous two sessions.
Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team #04) – 2’01.979 (12th)
“Up until to this morning we had done a good job, improving the bike in each session until we found a good race pace. In FP4 we had planned to do a back-to-back between two rear shocks but as soon as I set off I had a problem with the clutch and had to stop. On a long circuit like Silverstone, if you stop in the pits you don’t get a chance to do many other laps. As a result I started qualifying without any recent reference data and this made things difficult for me. Making up some places at the start won’t be easy, especially because the startline straight is short, but in any case I will try and get myself as close to the front as possible.”