The sun has been a consistent companion of the French Grand Prix weekend so far, although it wasn’t shining too bright for the WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team today, as Andrea Dovizioso had a challenging Saturday at the traditional Bugatti Circuit in Le Mans, but still managed to improve.
Dovi could use this morning’s FP3 to fine-tune his Yamaha YZR-M1 and while doing so, he went 0.689 seconds faster than his personal best yesterday. Yet also the riders ahead of him went quicker, so he still finished in P20.
In Qualifying later on, he cut off another 0.229 seconds from his FP3 time, but ended up in 20th again, which means he’ll have to start tomorrow’s seventh round of 2022 from the seventh row if the grid.
The French Grand Prix on Sunday starts at 14:00 local time with a distance of 27 laps around the Bugatti Circuit and so far unclear weather predictions, that could play a major role in tomorrow’s outcome for the entire MotoGP field.
Andrea Dovizioso #04
P 20“We can’t be happy. I expected more in terms of speed and also of my lap time in Qualifying. We are in P20, because the speed is not good enough. I’m honestly disappointed, I was expecting more here in Le Mans. But when you analyze everything in the end, this is the outcome. When you can’t ride this bike like Fabio (Quartararo) because the characteristics of the machine are quite particular, this is what happens. To change that is difficult for me at the moment.”