Andrea Dovizioso will start tomorrow’s Valencia Grand Prix at the Ricardo Tormo circuit near Valencia from the second row of the grid. The Italian rider clocked the fifth quickest time of 1’30.338 in this afternoon’s qualifying session.
This morning, at the end of FP3, the Ducati Team rider was classified in fourth place, thus going through directly into Q2. Dovi then went out on track for the thirty-minute afternoon FP4 session and ended ninth.
The final round of the 2016 MotoGP World Championship will be held over thirty laps and the race will start at 14.00 CET.
Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team #04) – 1’30.338 (5th)
“I’m satisfied with the work we did today because we focussed on race pace. Above all, in FP4 we used the same tyres as we had in the morning, and we picked up some important information about the tyre wear which will be useful tomorrow. In qualifying I did a good lap, for sure it wasn’t a perfect run, but I’m satisfied because it was vital to get onto the front two rows and we managed to do that. Now we’ll use the warm-up for fine-tuning and then in the race it’ll be essential to get a good start. Even though it’s not going to be easy, I feel sure we can fight for a podium place.”