After just a few days of rest, the MotoGP World Championship is back in action this weekend for the second back-to-back round of the season, this time in the sunny South of Spain. With decent temperatures, which have been increasing in the course of the day, the WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team already got some solid work done on Friday, but aims to move further ahead.
Although he collected some decent points last Sunday in Portugal, Dovi is still missing the perfect feeling aboard his Yamaha YZR-M1 and started this morning’s FP1 with less than one second from the top in P19.
In Free Practice two this afternoon, which was notably warm than the first session in the morning, he lowered his fastest lap by 0.797 seconds, but concluded the day just in the top 20 after missing out on the top by 1.214 seconds in the ultra-close premier class.
Dovi is now already looking forward to Saturday, where he can try further ideas in Free Practice three at 09:55 local time and Free Practice four at 13:30 ahead of the two Qualifying sessions that start at 14:10.
Andrea Dovizioso #04
P 20“We tried a different setup, but I couldn’t improve my feeling. To be honest, I’m a bit frustrated. I need to do many different things and it feels like it’s a bit too much. It’s difficult for me to be closer, so the gap to the front is still the same like in the other rounds. I’m not happy about that, but we will work on details with the data to better understand and try to do something different. But it’s more about my way to ride, so I will be more focused on that.”