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Andrea Dovizioso won a fantastic pole position at Sepang today, after a Q2 session held on wet asphalt. The Ducati Team Italian rider has set a good lap time of 2’11″511 on the first flying lap of the session, using on the back “rain” soft tyre. Back in the pit Dovizioso has decided to mount a “rain” hard tyre and fell back on the track with great determination, managing to further improve his time last lap in 2’11″485. Today is the fifth pole position in his career for Dovizioso, the second this year after Assen, and the thirty-sixth for Ducati in MotoGP.
Dovi had managed this morning, in the FP3 session played on a dry track, to rank in the top ten and then to secure direct access to Q2 in the afternoon, closing the session in eighth position in 2’00″723.
The Ducati Team Italian rider then took to the track for the decisive qualifying session after playing in the early afternoon with wet track 30 minutes FP4, closed in fifth position.
 
Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team # 04) – 2’11″485 (1)
“It was a very strange qualifying, because I think I was the only one who mounted the soft rear tyre at the first exit, and I was not sure I made the right choice. Instead our strategy worked because we were able to immediately set the fastest time on the first lap, without forcing too much. Then I stopped to try the hard tyre, and I didn’t think I could improve. Instead I succeeded and I’m very happy also because I believe that with one more lap I could have gone even faster.”