It was a difficult qualifying session today for the Ducati Team rider at Silverstone. In Q2, held in heavy rain, Andrea Dovizioso crashed on his fifth lap and suffered bruising to his right knee, which he had injured in private testing last week at Misano. The Romagna-born rider notched up tenth quickest time with a lap of 2’22.420 and will start from the fourth row.
In the third free practice session, held this morning on a dry track, Dovizioso finished FP3 in seventh. As a result, both Ducati Team rider went through directly into the afternoon’s Q2 session.
After the early afternoon’s FP4 session, which was held on a wet track and which ended with Dovizioso in second place then riders went out on track for qualifying, which finished with Dovizioso tenth.
The British GP, round 12 of the MotoGP World Championship, will start at 16.30 CET tomorrow afternoon.
Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team #04) – 2’22.420 (10th)
“I feel really bad about the crash, because I was doing a good lap and I could have probably got onto the front row, but the conditions were very difficult and I made a mistake. Unfortunately I crashed on the same injured knee from the Misano test, but luckily I didn’t suffer anything more serious. At the moment my knee is pretty swollen and has a few cuts and scrapes, so we’ll have to see if it’ll give me any trouble tomorrow. I think that without the mistake I could have been a lot further up the grid, so it’s a real shame having to start from row 4 because this makes my race a bit more complicated.”