The sun was shining on Saturday for the final Free Practice sessions and Qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix, the sixth round of the MotoGP World Championship 2022, accompanied by passionate fans around the 4.4-kilometre Circuito de Jerez-Ángel Nieto. Yet, the sun wasn’t shining so bright for the WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team rider Andrea Dovizioso who has been unlucky in setting a fast lap time in Qualifying.
Compared to Friday, Dovi improved his fastest time in this morning’s Free Practice three by 0.554 seconds, yet he was still struggling to find the right feeling. While FP4 served as a test session for various settings, Andrea was ready to get closer to the front in Qualifying one. Unfortunately, several incidents with yellow flags stopped his progress throughout the eight timed laps. He ended up in P13 and will have to catch up from row eight tomorrow when the red lights go out for the MotoGP race at 14:00 local time in the South of Spain.
Andrea Dovizioso #04
P 23“I managed to improve this morning, but I still didn’t have the right feeling to push confidently. Somehow, I’m not able to be really fast on entry and in the middle of the corners, so I just don’t get some decent times in. In the afternoon, it felt even harder. I was riding with the used tyres from this morning, but in any case, my speed is not there, so to be honest, I’m not very confident, but I still hope we can work on some solutions in Warm Up tomorrow morning.”