“I think ‘it is not necessary to push’ because Jorge at this moment is more slow than me. But then I crash” - Andrea Iannone.. Read more at Crash.net!
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Ductalk: What's Up In The World Of Ducati
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“I think ‘it is not necessary to push’ because Jorge at this moment is more slow than me. But then I crash” - Andrea Iannone.. Read more at Crash.net!
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Great photos from this last weekends MotoGP 2016 Season Opener (Thanks Ducati!)
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Andrea Dovizioso found the power and movement from his Ducati hard to manage on the bumpy and low-grip Catalunya asphalt..
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Andrea Dovizioso says Ducati still has a huge amount to learn about and extract from its 2015 MotoGP bike, which came close to victory in the Qatar Grand Prix
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Andrea Dovizioso underlined Ducati's MotoGP resurgence by claiming pole position for the Qatar Grand Prix season opener ahead of Honda's Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez
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Ducati's 2015 MotoGP bike is "stronger and more competitive" than the machines with which Casey Stoner won 23 grands prix and a championship between 2007 and '10, reckons Andrea Dovizioso
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Andrea Iannone says he is relishing the challenge of trying to seize the number one spot at Ducati from fellow Italian Andrea Dovizioso in 2015.
Iannone will join his compatriot in Ducati’s official factory squad next season after Cal Crutchlow switched to LCR Honda.
Briton Crutchlow initially pledged to honour the second year of his Desmosedici deal before landing a golden chance to replacing Stefan Bradl on a factory RC213V.
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We have worked well all weekend, but in the afternoon there was a strong wind and I lost a bit of feeling with the front" - Andrea Dovizioso
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MotoGP™ Q2 was another frantic sprint for pole at the Motul Grand Prix of Japan, with the honours taken by Andrea Dovizioso - as Valentino Rossi and Dani Pedrosa also slotted onto the front row – despite a late crash for Pedrosa.
Congrats to the Ducati Team for a great result!
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The Ducati Team is gearing up to tackle this weekend’s Motul Grand Prix of Japan, round 15 of the 2014 MotoGP™ World Championship and the first leg in a tough triple-header, which will continue with two more rounds in Australia and Malaysia over the following two weekends.
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Going as fast as possible on cold tyres, cold brakes and with unknown grip levels makes the opening lap of a MotoGP race especially intense....
So who does it best?
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With these guys now on new contracts it would be interesting to see this same chart for the next seven races...
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“We aren't fast enough with Ducati yet, but I'm still the fastest rider on the Ducati” - Andrea Dovizioso..
A quick Q&A with factory Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso, conducted at Assen, scene of the Italian's best-yet second place finish on the Desmosedici.
Dovizioso recently signed a new two-year contract to remain at Ducati for the 2015 and 2016 seasons...
Crash.net:
Andrea, it's ten years since you won your 125cc world title, how do you feel that your career has evolved and how you've changed since then?
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Andrea Dovizioso today ran an almost perfect race on the Dutch TT circuit at Assen, where the eighth round of the 2014 MotoGP World Championship was held. With an intelligent strategy, the Ducati Team rider perfectly interpreted the difficult weather conditions to take home a well-deserved second place, behind winner Marquez. With this result, the second podium of the season after a third at Austin, Dovizioso moves up one place in the world championship and is now fourth on 91 points
Anytime Marc Marquez say's he thought he was going to have to settle for second and that he was ok with that as a good result, you have had a damn fine day at the races...
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Ducati boss Gigi Dall’Igna reckons it is essential to keep Andrea Dovizioso on a Desmosedici machine in 2015.
The Bologna factory is facing stiff competition from...
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Andrea Dovizioso turns in the third fastest time in FP2 aboard a soft-shod Ducati, but admits the rest of the weekend could prove tougher..
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Dovi and Cal at the photo-shooting with Gigi Soldano, unveiling the new Ducati livery
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Andrea Dovizioso is quietly confident heading to Assen, believing Ducati Team could make the most of cooler temperatures in Round 7.
Ducati is yet to triumph at Assen since Casey Stoner took the chequered flag in 2008, but the team’s best result so far this season is its double top five finish amid the damp and wet conditions of Le Mans just over a month ago.
“First of all, the weather should certainly be a bit cooler in Holland than it was in Barcelona and that can only be good for us,” Italian Dovizioso begins. “The Assen circuit isn’t like it used to be when it was one of the nicest tracks on the calendar and it’s completely different from the last couple of tracks we’ve been to. I’m curious to see how the Desmosedici will go at Assen.
“We’ll use the same bike that we had at Barcelona, so without the updated frame. I must admit that I haven’t had much luck at Assen and that I’ve only had a pair of third place finishes in the last two years, so we hope to go better this time!”
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Andrea Dovizioso admits Ducati Team is in need of significant changes in order to regain its competitiveness at the front of the field.
After teammate Nicky Hayden crashed out of Sunday’s Catalan Grand Prix while running fifth, Dovizioso went on to finish seventh despite much attrition in front of him; he was also overtaken by Monster Yamaha Tech 3’s Bradley Smith.
“For sure, it was difficult for everybody, but for the Ducati riders it was really difficult to manage – especially the last six laps,” the Italian told motogp.com.
“Our pace in the race was not good and this just confirms the situation we have. We have to work really hard and make a big change for the future – it’s not this chassis or the new chassis we will try (in Monday’s test). We have already tried and the difference is very small. It is not really what we need to reduce the gap to the faster bike, so we have to work really hard.”
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There is also an article HERE about the challenges the tires presented to everybody which is really interesting, more so we think, than the race itself was...