The Ducati Team rider will start tomorrow’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone from the second row of the grid after today’s Q2 qualifying session, sixth with a best lap of 2’00.572.
In the morning the FP3 session was held on a damp track surface following overnight rain. The factory Ducati man, who only went out on track at the half-way through when surface conditions had improved, was unable to improve on the time he had set during Friday afternoon’s FP2, but in any case this was good enough to put him through into Q2.
After finishing second in FP4 in the afternoon, Dovizioso then took part in the second qualifying session for the British GP, round 12 of the championship, which will be held over a distance of 20 laps, starting at 16.30 CET tomorrow.
Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team #04) – 2’00.572 (6th)
“Today was rather complicated because unfortunately this morning it rained, and we lost almost all the FP3 session, without getting through the scheduled workload. At the end of FP4 we were able to improve enough, but I’m still not entirely happy and I hope that tomorrow in the warm-up we can make another step forward. We have a good pace but there are a lot of very fast riders out there, so we’ll see what it’s like in the race. However I’m satisfied with the time I set in qualifying, because starting from the first two rows was our aim and we achieved that.”