Andrea Dovizioso will start tomorrow’s Czech Republic GP at the Brno circuit from the second row of the grid after today’s qualifying session.
This morning the FP3 session was held on a wet track and no one managed to improve on yesterday’s times, so as a result the Ducati factory rider went through directly into Q2 in the afternoon.
Dovizioso was fourth quickest in Q2, held on a damp track which gradually dried out during the session and he opted to do the entire session with rain tyres, set a best time of 2’05.590.
Andrea Dovizioso (#04 Ducati Team) – 2’05.590 (4th)
“After my first run in Q2 I was sure we could have made a further improvement on our time and on my second run, with the hardest rain tyre available, I thought I could lap in 2’05 but I wasn’t sure if that would be enough. In the end I managed to do a good lap and even though I’m not on the front row, it’s OK in any case because today, with the track conditions we encountered, it was very easy to make a mistake; the most important thing was to start as close to the front as possible and we did that. I’m happy above all because in the dry yesterday we were quite fast and tomorrow it looks like there will be good weather for the race. Obviously Marquez is ahead of us, and he’s always very strong, but also Rins and Viñales will be competitive tomorrow. We’ll have to see their choice of tyres and in any case we will have to do a good warm-up to arrive at the race with a good feeling.”