The second day of official MotoGP testing at the Buriram circuit in Thailand finished at 5.30 pm local time. Respecting the programme for the first two days, the last fifteen minutes of the session were dedicated exclusively to practice starts for the MotoGP riders.
Today the Italian factory Ducati rider again carried on with development work on the Desmosedici GP18 machine and preparation for the race scheduled for 7th October at this track.
Andrea Dovizioso finished the second session in ninth place with a time of 1’30.494.
Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team #04): 1’30.494 (9th) – 78 laps
“Today we did a lot of work, making comparisons both with the new fairings and with a new version of the frame, and so I’m satisfied to have had an entire day to test these new components. As always there are pros and cons, but luckily we went strongly with all the new stuff and this is really positive. We were fast without using the soft tyre, but here probably the lap times are more difficult to interpret than in Malaysia, especially because Michelin still doesn’t have much experience on this track and so it seems that the right tyres for the race will be the harder ones, quite similar to those used in the Austrian GP. It’s not so easy to interpret the level of the other riders, but also today our bike proved to be very competitive.”