Following a Friday full of mixed conditions, Saturday’s action at the famous Red Bull Ring in Austria took place in the dry.
Dovi kicked off the race weekend yesterday with a decent feeling, which he confirmed in this morning’s Free Practice three session when he went 0.794 seconds faster than in FP2 on Friday. Yet a crash at the end of FP4 left him losing a bit of confidence. He managed to finish Qualifying one in ninth though, but couldn’t further improve on his lap time compared to FP3.
He’ll line up in the seventh row when the lights go out for his 13th MotoGP race tomorrow at 14:00 local time.
Andrea Dovizioso #04
P 19“Unfortunately, I had a crash just a few minutes before the Qualifying started and this was definitely not helpful in terms of feeling and confidence. Due to that, we also couldn’t use our setup, because the other bike didn’t have the things we tried before. I was trying, but I couldn’t do a very special lap time. I’m a bit disappointed, because we were improving our pace a bit, which was also important for the position, but anyway, the race here in Austria is very long. Let’s see tomorrow, if we can fix the setup.”