The second GP of the year at Misano got underway for PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team today with mixed conditions for Andrea Dovizioso, who ended the Gran Premio Made in Italy e dell’Emilia Romagna opening day 24th.
Enjoying a home GP, Dovi had a steady start to FP1 and took his time in acclimatising to the wet conditions. After sitting out of the worst of the rain, the Italian set a 1min 45.881secs time on his final lap and ended FP1 21st.
Andrea was quick to improve upon his morning time and at the halfway point of FP2 his fastest lap was 1min 44.643secs. Dovi was unable to better this time in the second half of the session and ended FP2, and the day, 24th.
Tomorrow’s track action will begin with FP3 at 9.55am local time and end with the two MotoGP Qualifying sessions at 2.10pm local time.
Andrea Dovizioso #04
P 24“I didn’t feel too good in the wet conditions and we are struggling a lot with grip, so that’s why I’m not as fast as I’d like. Today we faced two different conditions in the two sessions and I didn’t make a good lap time in either of them. We have some work to do tonight to be better tomorrow. My target is to work towards the top-ten by the end of the season, but I don’t think this will be possible here at Misano. I’m still not completely used to the bike, so it will be difficult to make a perfect lap tomorrow to be in that top-ten. We’ve done one race here already and the test after that, so what we learned then should help me tomorrow and Sunday”.