At the end of qualifying for the Shell Malaysia Grand Prix, the Ducati Team rider Andrea Dovizioso placed seventh and will start Sunday’s penultimate round of the season at Sepang from rows 3.
FP3 in the morning finished with Dovizioso in eighth and as a result qualifying for Q2.
After the thirty-minute FP4 session in the early afternoon, which saw Dovizioso sixth lapping with a good pace, he then went out for his decisive qualifying run, always using a soft rear and setting his best times on his first run.
Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team #04) – 2’00.423 (7th)
“In FP4 we didn’t go too bad with our race pace: even though we aren’t at the same level as the top four, we’re not far off. Instead in qualifying we didn’t go as well as we could have done, because I reckon I could have got under the two-minute mark. Unfortunately everything becomes more complicated when you can’t do what you want on the bike, and so it’s a real struggle to pull out 100%.”