Dovizioso leads Marquez, Rossi and Vinales in final practice for the Thai MotoGP. Marquez used the medium front and soft rear for his best lap, the other frontrunners were on hard tyres.
Dovizioso stays top of the timesheets during FP3 at the Thai MotoGP, but Marquez misses out on a top ten place after a last-lap fall and will need to take part in Qualifying 1.
Andrea Dovizioso is expecting the unexpected during MotoGP's debut in Thailand this weekend. While Dovizioso narrowly lost out to Marc Marquez last time in Aragon, it was by far the Italian's best performance at what has traditionally been one of his worst circuits.
With the Ducati G18 now arguably the class of the MotoGP field, Andrea Dovizioso has explained why he was careful about introducing new parts during the season and believes the key to the factory's current form has been 'adapting' the package.
When Andrea Dovizioso joined Ducati in 2013, it was a team on the ropes. The failure to win a race with Valentino Rossi had left the Italian factory floundering for direction amid a series of managerial and technical changes.
Full MotoGP FP2 results from Aragon Marc Marquez has produced a blistering pace to beat both factory Ducati riders and claim top spot after Friday practice at Aragon.
Ducati's riders' title chances may be remote, but with six races of the MotoGP World Championship remaining the Italian factory has already matched its six victories of last season.
Andrea Dovizioso says the majority of Ducati’s focus and development strategy is on 2019 as he feels Marc Marquez’s MotoGP world championship lead is ‘too far to think about’ despite winning in Misano.
Dovizioso wins the San Marino MotoGP at Misano - catching and passing Lorenzo, then staying just out of reach as his Ducati team-mate battled with Marquez.
Dovizioso fastest during FP1 for the San Marino MotoGP, as Marquez and Rossi are left outside the top ten after opting not to run a soft rear tyre and must now hope that the rain showers stay away.
Andrea Dovizioso has confessed the cancellation of the British MotoGP round meant a major chance to cut down Marc Marquez’s world championship lead has been missed.
Andrea Dovizioso feels a unified management on track resurfacing could be implemented to try to ensure issues witnessed at Silverstone are not repeated as he fears racing could be ‘impossible’ in heavy rain tomorrow.
Dovizioso leads the Friday practice timesheets at the British MotoGP by just 0.005s from home hero Crutchlow. Vinales completes a top three covered by just 0.061s.