One week after the Dutch TT at Assen, where Andrea Dovizioso took the lead of the championship thanks to a great race which he finished in fifth place, it takes place the ninth round of the MotoGP World Championship in Germany. The German round marks the half-way point of the season, and it is scheduled for this weekend at the Sachsenring circuit, near Chemnitz.
Dovizioso has twice appeared on the MotoGP podium at the Sachsenring: in 2012, when he finished third, and last year, when he again finished third at the end of an exciting race held in changeable weather conditions.
The Sachsenring weekend programme gets underway on Friday morning with the first free practice session at 9.50 am, while the 30-lap race is scheduled for Sunday at 14.00 CET.
Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team #04) – 1st (115 points)
“The Sachsenring is a track that has created a few problems for us in the past, but it has just been resurfaced and so it will be new for everyone. As always we will have to take account of the behaviour of the tyres, especially in this case seeing as no one has been able to test on the new track surface. It gives me great satisfaction to arrive in Germany as leader of the championship, but it won’t change my way of racing because, even in the past, I’ve never raced for each individual result, always with one eye on the championship: we’ll try and do a good job here in Germany to get the best possible result in Sunday’s race.”