With the rain just holding back on race day at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria, the WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team rider Andrea Dovizioso delivered a decent performance.
Launching off from P19, Dovi came back in 21st after the first lap and went even further back when he did a mistake on lap five. But from there, he started to recover and find his rhythm while improving his lap times throughout the race.
At half distance he was in 17th and made up two more positions towards the end of the race to eventually earn a World Championship point with P15.
Andrea Dovizioso #04
P 15“As always, at the beginning of the race, I’m not able to gain position and always losing positions. On the start it was good but in the corners, when you are that behind it’s a gamble and I lose a lot of positions. After 5 laps, I went out of the track in turn 1 and lost even more so my race changed, and I had to start to recover. My pace in the middle of the race was exactly the same as during practise. But, when you are that behind, it’s hard to gain anything. In the end, we took one point and this is a positive.”