The Aragon GP weekend got off to a positive start for the factory Ducati Team rider, third on day 1 at the MotorLand track in Spain.
In the morning’s Free Practice 1, Dovizioso had set the quickest time of the session, while in the afternoon nearly all the riders were able to improve their times towards the end of the second session and Andrea Dovizioso was third quickest with a lap of 1’47.835.
Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team #04) – 3rd – 1’47.835
“Today has been very positive, because we were able to start off the day by immediately regaining the good feeling we had achieved in the test in August, and so now we’ve already got some pretty clear ideas about the tyres and the set-up. This will enable us to work on the details tomorrow because I think that the conditions will improve a bit and so we’ll be able to understand how the tyres will really behave. As always we must try and be quick while consuming the tyres as little as possible: in every track this is the characteristic, but here at Aragón it’s even more important. At the moment there are three of us who have a very similar pace, but it won’t be enough and so tomorrow we’ll have to improve a bit more.”