Following a Friday of mixed conditions, the sun was back above the legendary TT Circuit in Assen for Saturday’s action at the Dutch Grand Prix. Although temperatures were dropping again just shortly before Qualifying in the afternoon, the track stayed dry and offered perfect conditions today.
WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team’s Andrea Dovizioso started with some better feelings into this weekend, having found slight improvements recently. In this morning’s FP3, Dovi managed to go 1.304 seconds quicker than on Friday and could even go a step ahead in Qualifying, where he cut off further 0.337 seconds. He eventually landed in seventh position in Q1, missing out on Q2 by just 0.459 seconds and will begin tomorrow’s 11th race of 2022 from the sixth row on the grid.
Sunday in the Netherlands kicks off with WarmUP in the early morning, followed by the race at 14:10 local time.
Andrea Dovizioso #04
P 17“To be honest, I’m not over the moon. I expected a bit more. But we didn’t try many different tyres compared to the others, so we have to go into that now. It looks like it can be better to use something else, as we were very focused on the medium tyre and the setup. I don’t feel super fast, but my lap time in Qualifying was a bit better, so our task from now until tomorrow is to study the tyres.”