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MotoGP French GP – Dovizioso (retirement): "It’s an unacceptable mistake but I remain confident for the championship"

Analysis - MotoGP French GP - Dovizioso (abandonment):

Second consecutive white result for Andrea Dovizioso, who tripped up in the 2018 French GP after being the victim of a collision in Jerez … "DesmoDovi", favorite for victory, expected better from this week -end during which his extension at Ducati for the next two seasons was formalized… Debriefing.

Andrea Dovizioso, Ducati (5th in qualifying and retirement in the race):  "It’s unacceptable to make that kind of mistake, especially when you’re faster than the others. Usually, it doesn’t look like me. I started off a little wide, the rear of the bike came up. to move … but I did not expect to lose the front. I am very disappointed, both for myself and for the team ".

Analysis - MotoGP French GP - Dovizioso (abandonment):

"Yet we had done an excellent job: at the start of the weekend we were quite far away, but session after session we made progress. We had done everything perfectly, the bike was working wonderfully this Sunday. It was a day when we could enter a lot of points ".

"That being said, we were once again very fast and that’s what matters. We have the means to recover these lost points, so I remain confident for the championship. I think we can be competitive on all circuits and in particular at Mugello ".

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Site analysis : Marc Marquez, winner of the 2018 French GP, admits frankly that the driver he feared the most at Le Mans was Andrea Dovizioso, author of very consistent race simulations on his official Desmosedici. Despite his record pole, Johann Zarco worried the n ° 93 less than the official Ducati, just .

 Analysis - MotoGP French GP - Dovizioso (abandonment):

To the point that Marquez admits to having been able to reduce his efforts after the fall of his Italian rival: "the other pilots were slower than Dovi", explains Marquez who did not however spare himself to keep "Petrux" and the Doctor at a distance, as evidenced by a catch up "elbow-to-the-ground" in turn 3 of which the MotoGP acrobat has the secret !

This ability to defy the laws of balance was however lacking in "DesmoDovi", who lost the front in the Chapel on the 5th lap just after taking the lead from his teammate Jorge Lorenzo. Too fast, too much angle, too wide: there is no shortage of explanations to explain the fall of the Italian, who could not believe he finished his race in the gravel…

This error turns out to be all the more penalizing in the championship as it is his second consecutive white result after the in Jerez. An extremely rare situation for the native of Forlimpopoli, who usually shines with his regularity at the forefront… 

Andrea Dovizioso thus descends to ninth place in the provisional standings, 49 points behind leader Marc Marquez. Almost two races behind the official Honda, whose speed and consistency promise to be as formidable as in 2014…

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To console himself, the No.4 recalls that his situation was not much better last year at this stage of the season: his points balance after the first five races in 2017 was 54, with only one incursion on the. This year, the transalpine is actually more "beefy", as evidenced by its .

Still, the level at the forefront is more tightened than in 2017: behind the untouchable Marquez, Zarco, Iannone, Crutchlow and Petrucci regularly join forces to reach the podium. Not to mention Valentino Rossi, often well placed despite his recurring concerns with the Yamaha.

Lorenzo could not "hold on physically"

On the other side of the Ducati box, the results are hardly better: admittedly, Jorge Lorenzo was once again leading the race for nine laps, but his performance has often turned into a flash in the pan … by Marquez in the 10th loop, "Jorgeuil" then only demoted to finally finish 6th at 10.355 sec from the winner.

 Analysis - MotoGP French GP - Dovizioso (abandonment):

"I started to lose two or three tenths after two or three laps, while the others were going half a second faster", laments the n ° 99 whose power of the Ducati allowed him to resist the attacks of Johann Zarco during the first laps, until pushing the French to fault in front of his home crowd.

"I could not stand physically", develops the Mallorcan who points to the new format of the gasoline tank of his Ducati as one of the causes of his concerns: "it is smaller but more advanced, so it requires more arms than last year ".

However, this characteristic is not enough to explain the lack of concrete results from one of the best paid drivers on the field: Jorge Lorenzo is an anonymous 14th place in the provisional with only 16 points registered in five events, his worst start to the season. in the premier category…

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This meager harvest places him on equal points with rookie Franco Morbidelli on the Honda of team Marc VDS, whose manager Michael Bartholemy was also ahead of the French GP…

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