GP of the Americas – Dovizioso saves the essential, Lorenzo sinks…
Andrea Dovizioso’s consistency propels him to the top of the 2018 MotoGP World Championship, despite a Grand Prix of the Americas that finished far from the leaders (5th). The Italian is in a strong position before returning to Europe, unlike his teammate Jorge Lorenzo … Debriefing.
Andrea Dovizioso, Ducati Team (8th in qualifying and 5th in race): "On the one hand I’m very happy and on the other not so much … I’m happy with the way we worked this weekend, because we were very far on Friday. We made the right decisions and we We were able to finish fifth. But we also found that we were still struggling on some tracks. We did not improve enough and our negative points remain. ".
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"Having said that we are heading to Jerez leading the championship which is positive. We are in a much better position than last year and we were able to handle the first three races well. I think the championship is different. this year: there are a lot more drivers involved. Anything can happen, especially at Jerez and Le Mans. And the season is still long! "
Site analysis : "DesmoDovi" fought all weekend to keep his head above water in Texas, on a technical and physical circuit due to his rapid angle changes. Features that put the Ducati at fault, certainly swift in the straights but still lacking agility.
Result: the native of Forlimpopoli (Italy) remained in the soft underbelly of the standings during practice, qualifying a distant 8th place, 1.2 seconds (!) Behind the poleman. The third round of the season was clearly going to be difficult for Dovizioso, who had already been behind in Argentina (6th)…
But that was without counting the fighting spirit and persistence of the Italian driver, the very ones that allowed him to fight head to foot for the title against Marquez last year! "Dovi" thus climbed into the second group using the strength of his right wrist, before taking advantage of Crutchlow’s fall and then taking the wheel of Zarco..
More at ease than the French driver on certain braking, the n ° 4 carried out a decisive attack four laps from the finish to seize fifth place 13.570 sec from the winner. Mission accomplished for the Ducati rider, who limits the breakage and scores important points !
Andrea Dovizioso, victorious in the opening round in Qatar, even recovers the lead of the championship thanks to his consistency at the forefront. The transalpine certainly does not have the most impressive speed of this start of the season, but its regularity pays off: here it is at the head of the provisional with one point ahead of Marquez (46 Vs 45) !
Lorenzo at the bottom of the hole…
On the other side of the box, however, the atmosphere continues to deteriorate: despite his "", Lorenzo finished eleventh (his best result in 2018!), Beaten in the last laps by the Ducati satellites of Rabat and Miller as well as by Aprilia d’Espargaro. The No.99 crossed the finish line 31.355 sec behind the winner and 17.785 sec over his teammate Dovizioso…
Qualified in sixth position, Jorge Lorenzo admits first of all to having erred in his choice of rear tire by opting for hard rubber, which caused "a lot of slippage". But it was above all the nature of the Texan route that caused him problems.
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"It’s a very physical circuit and with the new bike I have more physical problems, especially under braking", relates the n ° 99, completely lost on his Desmosedici 2018. What a contrast with his ambitious claims during winter testing, when he exploded the record in Sepang (Malaysia)…
After three contested races, "Jorgeuil" appears at a distant 16th place in the provisional with only 6 points, his worst start to the season in MotoGP. Here he is tied on points with Franco Morbidelli, who starts at Honda Marc VDS !
More worrying still: Lorenzo is only the fifth Ducati rider in the provisional, far behind Dovizioso (1st) and the private Desmosedici of Miller (8th), Rabat (9th) and Petrucci (10th). A position obviously incompatible with his status as a factory rider, debauched at great expense from Yamaha to bring the title back to Ducati…
Miller plays big arms, with a loose shoulder !
Jorge Lorenzo, who is said to be in contact with Suzuki to replace Iannone in 2019, also deplores the authoritarian overtaking of Jack Miller in the last laps, criticizing the aggressiveness of this interior which would have forced him to change course to avoid the contact…
Coming thoughhhh barges his way past
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"If I do not raise the bike, I fall", he reproaches his rival to whom he had however left the door wide open by entering wide in this left … "But if the other rider does not hit you no, the race director is not doing anything. It’s always the same riders doing this type of action … But hey, the race was so bad that I’m not going to talk about that kind of thing. "
Jack Miller, who apologized to the Mallorcan, did not elaborate much on this maneuver considered by many to be a simple fact of the race. On arrival, the Pramac pilot was more focused on his physical condition … by revealing an injury kept secret !
"We’ve been very quiet about my shoulder all weekend, but now we’re done and I have to admit it wasn’t great," says "Jackass" who tore his rotator cuff. of the right shoulder and cracked the collarbone while falling in mountain bike between the GP of Argentina and the GP of the Americas !
"Sometimes the period between races can be more dangerous than the races themselves," adds the former Honda rider with humor, who considers it almost a victory to have finished 9th in these conditions. !
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