The Mission Winnow Ducati rider resumed action today at Termas de Río Hondo (Argentina) for the second round of the 2019 MotoGP World Championship. In Friday’s free-practice – characterised by extremely narrow gaps, with 21 riders within less than a second – Andrea Dovizioso initially focused on the race setup and then went on the attack in the final stages of the second and last session.
Dovizioso made the most of the soft rear tyre to post a 1:39.181, about 1.5 seconds faster than his previous best in FP1, to claim the top of the time sheets, further confirming the competitiveness already shown in Qatar.
Andrea Dovizioso (#04 Mission Winnow Ducati) – 1:39.181 (1st)
“I’m very happy, especially because we struggled quite a bit here in recent years and today, on the other hand, we found a good feeling with the bike right away. We are all extremely close so the lap time itself isn’t too important, but I feel much better riding compared with last year here. I still don’t know whether it’ll be enough to fight for the podium, because there are many riders with a strong pace and this track is peculiar, especially in terms of grip, which is particularly low. Anyhow, we have an excellent base, we made some steps forward with the setup and I think we still have room for improvement.”