Just a few days after the Portuguese Grand Prix, the entire MotoGP World Championship paddock is already preparing for the second European race, which takes place this weekend at the Circuito de Jerez-Ángel Nieto in the South of Spain, where both WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team riders have already tested their Yamaha YZR-M1 machines last year.
After scoring his best result of the season so far with 11th in Portimao, Andrea Dovizioso is hungry for more. Although the Italian feels that his gap to the top is still quite huge, he comes to Jerez de la Frontera, with high hopes, having ridden his Yamaha YZR-M1 there last November and with some ideas in mind to improve on his deficits.
The weekend will start this Friday with Free Practice one at 09:55 CET followed by FP2 at 14:10 CET.
Andrea Dovizioso #04
“Jerez is not the best track for me, but I expect to make a step there for me, because I think the bike works well there. Other than that, it’s good to go straight to Jerez after Portimao, because the speed was not there, but my feeling at the end of the race was a bit better. So it will be very important to make a step, because we need to be in the middle of the group and also start a bit further in front, because the position in the grid will always affect the race a lot.”